Current and future trends in socio-economic, demographic and governance factors affecting global primate conservation.

ABSTRACT: Currently, ~65% of extant primate species (ca 512 species) distributed in 91 countries in the Neotropics, mainland Africa, Madagascar, South Asia and Southeast Asia are threatened with extinction and 75% have declining populations as a result of deforestation and habitat loss resulting from increasing global market demands, and land conversion for industrial agriculture, cattle production and natural resource extraction. Other pressures that negatively impact primates are unsustainable bushmeat hunting, the illegal trade of primates as pets and as body parts, expanding road networks in previously isolated areas, zoonotic disease transmission and climate change. Here we examine current and future trends in several socio-economic factors directly or indirectly affecting primates to fu

SUBMITTER: Estrada A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7444509 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature