Credit Andrew Walmsleyand Little Fireface Project
The majority of primate species worldwide are now threatened with extinction, according to an international group of primate conservation experts who are calling for urgent action to protect the world's dwindling primate populations. 60 per cent of recognised primate species worldwide are now threatened with extinction, and 75 per cent have declining populations, say the experts in an article in Science Advances . Global priority However, the scientists say there are possible solutions if governments, NGOs, businesses and organisations, researchers and the public mobilise behind the cause. Professor Jo Setchell from the Department of Anthropology is one of the authors. She said: "This is a dire situation. We must prevent the mass extinction of our closest biological relatives. And it is possible.
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