Impending extinction crisis of the world's primates: Why primates matter

A Estrada, PA Garber, AB Rylands, C Roos… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Nonhuman primates, our closest biological relatives, play important roles in the livelihoods,
cultures, and religions of many societies and offer unique insights into human evolution …

Global wildlife trade and trafficking contribute to the world's nonhuman primate conservation crisis

PA Garber, A Estrada, S Shanee… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
A growing global human population, habitat conversion, and the indiscriminate exploitation
of natural resources have created unsustainable demands on nature, resulting in …

Integrative taxonomy clarifies the evolution of a cryptic primate clade

T Van Elst, GM Sgarlata, D Schüßler, GP Tiley… - Nature Ecology & …, 2025 - nature.com
Global biodiversity is under accelerating threats, and species are succumbing to extinction
before being described. Madagascar's biota represents an extreme example of this …

[HTML][HTML] The amphibians and reptiles of Mindanao Island, southern Philippines, II: the herpetofauna of northeast Mindanao and adjacent islands

MB Sanguila, KA Cobb, CD Siler, AC Diesmos… - ZooKeys, 2016 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We summarize all available amphibian and reptile species distribution data from the
northeast Mindanao faunal region, including small islands associated with this subcenter of …

Land and deep-sea mining: the challenges of comparing biodiversity impacts

S Katona, D Paulikas, S Ali, M Clarke, E Ilves… - Biodiversity and …, 2023 - Springer
The term 'biodiversity,'while casually used in practice, is a complicated subject to measure,
interpret, contextualize, and compare. Yet the possible advent of deep-sea mining in the mid …

Genomic analysis reveals hidden biodiversity within colugos, the sister group to primates

VC Mason, G Li, P Minx, J Schmitz, G Churakov… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
Colugos are among the most poorly studied mammals despite their centrality to resolving
supraordinal primate relationships. Two described species of these gliding mammals are the …

[HTML][HTML] Expanding global commodities trade and consumption place the world's primates at risk of extinction

A Estrada, PA Garber, A Chaudhary - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
As a consequence of recent human activities. populations of approximately 75% of the
world's primates are in decline, and more than 60% of species (n= 512) are threatened with …

Early twenty-first century biodiversity data pinpoint key targets for bird and mammal conservation in Mindanao, Southern Philippines

KC Dela Cruz, SS Abdullah, AR Agduma… - Biodiversity, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Mindanao, one of the three major groups of islands in the Philippines, is known for its
diverse and unique species. Despite its biological significance, conservation efforts aimed at …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic diversity in humans and non-human primates and its evolutionary consequences

N Osada - Genes & genetic systems, 2015 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Genetic diversity is a key parameter in population genetics and is important for
understanding the process of evolution and for the development of appropriate conservation …

Overcoming challenges to extracting and sequencing historical DNA to support primate evolutionary research and conservation, with an application to galagos

A Penna, ME Blair, HL Lui, E Peters, L Kistler… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
The availability of genetic data from wild populations limits our understanding of primate
evolution and conservation, particularly for small nocturnal species such as lorisiforms …