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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[One quarter to one third of mammals threatened with extinction]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[One in four of the world's land mammal species and one in three marine mammal species is threatened with extinction, according to an update of the IUCN Red List, the gold standard for the conservation status of global biodiversity.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1006-iucn_mammals.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[An interview with ringtailed lemur expert Alison Jolly]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Madagascar has more than 100 types of lemurs, but the most famous species is the ringtailed lemur, a primate found widely in the southern part of the Indian Ocean island. The world's leading expert on ringtailed lemurs is Alison Jolly, presently a Visiting Scientist at the University of Sussex in the UK.  Since arriving on the Indian Ocean island in 1963, Jolly has documented the behavior and population dynamics of ringtailed lemurs in Berenty, a small private reserve of gallery forest amid a sea of desert-like spiny forest in southern Madagascar. ]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1006-jolly_lemur_interview.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Half of the world's mammal species in decline (update)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Half of the world's mammal species are in decline, according to a new assessment of the planet's 5,487 mammals.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1006-iucn_red_list.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA["Punk-rock" monkey and handbags made from recycled trash inspire conservation in Colombia]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A small, but charismatic primate has become the symbol for conservation efforts in an area of threatened forest in northwestern Colombia, says a conservationist who helped pioneer a successful community development program that turns trash into attractive handbags. Rosamira Guillen, Executive Director of the Fundaci&oacute;n Proyecto Tit&iacute;, is working with local communities to protect the endangered Cotton-top tamarin and its tropical dry forest habitat in northwestern Colombia.  The effort relies heavily on creating alternative livelihoods for local people who would otherwise collect the squirrel-sized primate for the pet trade or raze its habitat for agriculture.  In the process, Fundaci&oacute;n Proyecto Tit&iacute; has created a thriving business that converts plastic bags &#8212; a source or mortality among cotton-top tamarins &#8212; into fashionable &quot;eco-mochilas&quot; that are now sent all over the world.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0925-wcn_guillen_tamarin_interview.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Loss of wildlife is threatening biodiverse forests in northeastern India]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Logging, agricultural expansion, and hunting of large birds and mammals in the tropical forests of northeastern India may be reducing the capacity of the biologically-rich ecosystem to regenerate itself, report researchers writing in the open-access journal Tropical Conservation Science. ]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0915-aparajita__tcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[11 species of monkeys discovered in West African biodiversity hotspot]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Urgent conservation measures are needed to protect some of the world's most endangered primates from the hunting, logging, and oil palm development in a region that has only recently emerged from a period of civil strife, report researchers writing in the open-access journal Tropical Conservation Science.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0915-sery_tcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New rainforest sanctuary in Cameroon already at risk from plantations, hunting]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The forests of southern Cameroon bordering Gabon are biodiversity-rich and harbor important populations of gorillas, chimpanzees, and elephants. In 1998 the government of Cameroon established the Mengamé Gorilla Sanctuary and in 2002, working in close partnership with the government of Cameroon, the Jane Goodall Institute launched a project to protect habitat and biodiversity in the reserve while creating a connection between conservation and socio-economic improvement in communities bordering the sanctuary. The sanctuary now plays an important role in emerging trans-boundary protected area initiatives.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0915-evariste_tcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Primate conservation may enhance food availability to humans]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Primate conservation may have the unintended benefit of enhancing food availability to humans reports a study led by African scientists. ]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0915-kone_tcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rare monkeys double in number in China but remain under threat]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[China's population of the gray snub-nosed monkey, a critically-endangered species endemic to Guizhou Province in southwestern China, has more than doubled in the wild since conservation measures were implemented in 1979, reports Chinese state media.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0908-china_monkey.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cameroon and Nigeria to protect world's rarest gorilla]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Cameroon and Nigeria have agreed to protect the the Cross River gorilla, world's most endangered gorilla, reports the Wildlife Conservation Society, which helped broker the deal.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0905-wcs_gorilla.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Two large populations of endangered monkeys discovered in Cambodian]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Conservationists have discovered "surprisingly large populations" of two globally threatened primates in a protected area in Cambodia. Surveys by scientists with the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Cambodian government counted 42,000 black-shanked douc langurs and 2,500 yellow-cheeked crested gibbons in Cambodia's Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0828-wcs_monkeys.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Investors seek profit from conserving rainforest biodiversity]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An investment firm has launched the first tropical biodiversity credits scheme. New Forests, a Sydney, Australia-based company, has established the Malua Wildlife Habitat Conservation Bank in Malaysia as an attempt to monetize rainforest conservation. The "Malua BioBank" will use an investment from a private equity fund to restore and protect 34,000 hectares (80,000 acres) of formerly logged forest that serves as a buffer between biologically-rich forest reserve and a sea of oil palm plantations. The conservation effort will generate "Biodiversity Conservation Certificates", the sales of which will endow a perpetual conservation trust and produce a return on investment for the Sabah Government and the private equity fund.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0813-malua_new_forests.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Human-testing for animal medications?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Medical advances for humans have largely been dependent on other species: deriving chemical compounds from plants, employing molds for vaccines, or testing drugs on mammals.  However, in an intriguing twist the Wildlife Conservation Society has adapted a test used on humans for primates in the Bronx Zoo.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0806-hance_medications.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Private equity firm to sell biodiversity offsets from rainforest conservation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An investment firm has launched the first tropical biodiversity credits scheme. New Forests, an Australia-based company, has established the Malua Wildlife Habitat Conservation Bank in an attempt to monetize rainforest conservation. The "Malua BioBank" will use an investment from a private equity fund to restore and protect 34,000 hectares (80,000 acres) of formerly logged forest that serves as a buffer between biologically-rich forest reserve and a sea of oil palm plantations.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0806-malua_new_forests.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dell becomes carbon neutral by saving endangered lemurs]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Dell, the world's largest computer maker, announced it has become the first major technology company to achieve carbon neutrality.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0806-dell.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Australia declares its largest tropical rainforest park]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Autralia will protect its most pristine rainforest a nearly twenty year battle between conservationists and land owners, according to a statement from the government of Queensland.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0806-australia.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[48% of primates threatened with extinction]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[48 percent of the world's primate species are at risk of extinction, according to the first comprehensive review of the world's primates since 2003.  The results were released as an update to the IUCN Red List at the 22nd International Primatological Society Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0805-primates.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Massive gorilla population discovered in the Congo]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The world's known population of critically endangered western lowland gorillas has more than doubled following a new census that revealed some 125,000 in the Republic of Congo.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0805-gorillas.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Newly discovered monkey is critically endangered by logging, poaching]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A newly discovered species of monkey may already be threatened with extinction, according to a study published in the journal <i>Oryx</i>.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0728-kipunji.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Population of critically endangered lemurs discovered in Madagascar]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists in Madagascar have discovered a population of greater bamboo lemurs (<i>Prolemur simus</i>), a critically endangered species of primate, in an area more than 400 kilometers away from its only known refuge, reports conservation International.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0721-lemurs.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Orangutans persist in islands amid a sea of oil palm plantations]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Orangutan are surviving in forest islands in a sea of oil palm plantations in Malaysia, reports a new survey by a government-backed conservation initiative.  The finding underscores the need to protect critical forest areas for the endangered primates as forest continues to fall in southeast Asia at a rate that is the highest of any of the world's tropical forest regions.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0717-orangs_oil_palm.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tiny lemur species discovered in Madagascar]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers have discovered a previously unknown species of mouse lemur on the island of Madagascar. The find brings the global number of mouse lemurs to 16.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0714-lemur.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Planet of the Apes Has Arrived, and It Is Spain]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Visiting Spain's Barcelona zoo as a child, I was greeted to a memorable sight.  In one of the cages sat a gorilla, but not just any primate.  I had come face to face with the legendary albino ape "Little Snowflake."  Because of Snowflake's white coat, when I looked at him I felt like I was peering into the eyes of a wizened old man.  The only difference was that Snowflake's eyes were pink!]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0703-kozloff_spain.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0703-kozloff_spain.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Orangutan populations drop due to logging, expansion for palm oil]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Orangutan populations have fallen sharply on the two islands where they still live, reports a new study published in the journal <i>Oryx</i>.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0705-orangs.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0705-orangs.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Does logging contribute to AIDS deaths in Africa?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Logging activities in tropical Africa may pose hidden health risks to wildlife and humans according to a veterinary pathobiologist speaking at a scientific conference in Paramaribo, Suriname.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0614-aids_wildlife.html</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0614-aids_wildlife.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Hunting, deforestation wipe out 6 of 7 hornbill species in Borneo park]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Logging, forest conversion for palm oil, and hunting have triggered a precipitous drop in key wildlife populations in Malaysia's Lambir Hills National Park, on the island of Borneo, said a biologist speaking at a scientific conference in Paramaribo, Suriname.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0614-harrison.html</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lemurs are key to health of Madagascar's rainforests]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Lemurs play a key role in the health of Madagascar's tropical rainforests said a renowned primatologist speaking at a meeting of conservation biologists in Paramaribo, Suriname.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0612-madagascar.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mexican canyon serves as key refuge for endangered spider monkeys]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A picturesque canyon in Chiapas, Mexico is serving as an important refuge for the northernmost population of Spider monkeys, reports a study published in the June issue of <i>Tropical conservation Science</i>.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0609-munoz_tcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0609-munoz_tcs.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Rare golden primates help speed recovery of endangered Brazilian forest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The endangered golden lion tamarin &#8212; a flagship species for conservation efforts in Brazil's highly threatened Atlantic Forest or <i>Mata Atlantica</i> &#8212; plays an important role in seed dispersal, thereby helping forest regeneration, according to research published in the June issue of the open access e-journal <i>Tropical conservation Science</i>.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0609-lapenta_tcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0609-lapenta_tcs.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Guide to Monkeys of the Guianas released]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A pocket identification guide to the monkeys of Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana was unveiled Sunday at a gathering of tropical biologists in Paramaribo, Suriname.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0609-ci_monkey.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Argentina's primates under threat from agriculture]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Five species of non-human primates inhabit in northern Argentina: black and gold howlers, brown howlers, black capuchins, brown-capped capuchins, and owl monkeys. Although two of these species are clearly endangered (brown howlers and owl monkeys), populations of all other species are disappearing due to anthropogenic changes of their habitats. Most of the forests where these species inhabit are under continuous alteration and degradation due to soy, rice, and forest plantations, and exotic pastures for livestock. Moreover, protected forests in Argentina are insufficient to protect these primates.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0609-Zunino-Kowaleski_tcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0609-Zunino-Kowaleski_tcs.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[World's rarest gorilla gets its own forest reserve]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The government of Cameroon has established the first sanctuary exclusively for the world's rarest type of ape: the Cross River gorilla, according to the Wildlife conservation Society (WCS), which helped support the project.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0418-gorillas.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mobile game to help save embattled gorillas in the Congo]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[For mobile users a new mobile game hopes to raise awareness of the plight of the mountain gorilla and funds for their conservation.  Silverback takes gamers through eight levels, following the life-span of a gorilla from childhood to adult.  The game was originally developed in 2003 by Fauna & Flora International.  Ken Banks, creator of www.kiwanja.net, helped develop the game.  In 2006 the game was taken off-line where as Banks says it "sat on a virtual shelf, gathering virtual dust".  He has now brought the game back in the hope that it will renew interest, and awareness, in the plight of the mountain gorilla.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0416-kiwanja_gorilla_game.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0416-kiwanja_gorilla_game.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Rwanda launches reforestation project to protect chimps, drive ecotourism]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[conservationists in Rwanda have launched an ambitious reforestation project that aims to create a forest corridor to link an isolated group of chimpanzees to larger  areas of habitat in Nyungwe National Park.  The initiative, called the Rwandan National conservation Park, is backed by the Rwandan government, the Great Ape Trust of Iowa, and Earthpark, a group seeking to build an indoor rainforest in the U.S. Midwest.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0318-rwanda.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Human impacts on primate conservation in central Amazonia]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Deforestation in the Amazon is a serious concern. In the Brazilian Amazon, forests are cleared for cattle ranches, soybean cultivation, and selective logging practices. A new plan to settle approximately 180 families north of Manaus, the capital city of the state of Amazonas, has created widespread controversy. The land plots would be located within the study site of the longest-running study of forest fragmentation, the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP). Therefore, the plan would threaten scientific research at the BDFFP and other nearby research sites operated by the Instituto Nacional da Pesquisas de Amaz&ocirc;nia (INPA) and Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA), as well as the future of the Central Amazonian conservation Corridor.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0303-tcs_boyle.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0303-tcs_boyle.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Fragmentation puts Mexican howlers at risk]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Forest fragmentation is putting mantled howler monkeys in southern Mexico at risk, reports a new study, published in the inaugural issue of the open access e-journal Tropical conservation Science.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0303-tcs_mandujano.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0303-tcs_mandujano.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Photos: pair of kissing saki monkeys]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Wildlife conservation Society (WCS) has unveiled a new pair of saki monkeys at Prospect Park Zoo in New York.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0303-wcs_maher_saki.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Aye-aye diverged from other lemurs 66M years ago]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The aye-aye -- a bizarre, nocturnal lemur that taps on trees with its fingers to find its insect prey -- was the first of its family to branch off from the rest of the lemur line some 66 million years ago, report Duke researchers writing in the March 1 issue of Genome Research.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0225-madagascar.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[First photos of face-to-face mating by gorillas in the wild]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists have taken the first photos of face-to-face copulation by wild gorillas. The images were captured in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0212-wcs_gorillas.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New uakari monkey discovered in the Amazon rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A previously unknown species of uakari monkey was discovered in the Brazilian Amazon, reports <i>National Geographic News</i>.  The primate was identified after it was killed by Yanomamo Indians near the Brazil-Venezuela border.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0205-monkey.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Photo: the night monkey]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["Midget" is the youngest member of a family (six in all) of douroucoulis at the Bronx Zoo's World of Darkness. The only true nocturnal monkey, this species is also known as "owl monkey" or "night monkey".]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0120-maher_night_monkey.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Photos: rare aye-aye lemur born at Bristol Zoo Gardens]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Born on November 23rd, 2007 at Bristol Zoo Gardens this baby Aye-aye was given the name Raz.  According to the EDGE (Evolutionary Distinct and Globally Endangered) organization this is only the second Aye-aye to be hand raised in the UK.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0116-hance_ayeaye.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dirt-munching helps protect chimps from malaria]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Soil ingestion helps chimps protect themselves from malaria, reports a new study published in the journal Naturwissenschaften.  Apparently geophagy, as the deliberate behvaior is known, increases the potency of ingested plants with anti-malarial properties.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0110-chimps.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[An interview with primate researcher Dr. Karen Strier: America's largest monkey recovering after brush with extinction]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Atlantic forest of Brazil boasts South America's largest primates, the Southern and Northern Muriqui.  The muriqui are unique among all primates, because they are not territorial and do not display aggressive behvaior.  The IUCN has classified the Southern Muriqui as endangered, while the Nothern Muriqui is critically endangered.  Dr. Karen Strier has studied the Northern Muriqui in the field for twenty-five years.  A professor of zoology and anthropology at the University of Madison Wisconsin, she is the author of Faces in the Forest: the Endangered Muriqui Monkeys of Brazil and a new textbook entitled Primate behvaioral Ecology.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0110-interview_strier_hance.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Photo: Pygmy marmoset twins born at the Bronx Zoo]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Twin pygmy marmosets born to three-year-old mom, Squirt, and seven-year-old dad, King at the Bronx Zoo on November 11 are doing well, according to zoo officials.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0103-wcs_marmoset.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0103-wcs_marmoset.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Orangutan should become symbol of palm-oil opposition]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In a letter published today in Nature, Oscar Venter, Erik Meijaard and Kerrie Wilson argue that proposals for conservation groups to purchase and run oil palm plantations for the purpose of generating funds for forest protection are unlikely to be successful.  The concept was originally put forth by Lian Pin Koh and David S. Wilcove in a 2007 Nature article.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0102-palm_oil.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0102-palm_oil.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Rare gorillas use weapons to attack forest-intruding humans]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Following the first documented cases of the Cross River gorillas -- world's most endangered gorilla -- throwing sticks and clumps of grass when threatened by people, the Wildlife conservation Society (WCS) has announced new research to better protect the species from poaching and encroachment.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1205-gorillas.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
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<title><![CDATA[Primate journal offers free online access through year-end]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The International Journal of Primatology, a prominent peer-reviewed journal on current primatology research, is offering free and unlimited online access until December 31, 2007.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1128-primates.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rainforest Reserve Established in DR Congo to save bonobo]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has announced the creation of a 11,803-square mile rainforest reserve to protect the habitat of the endangered bonobo, the so-called "peaceful chimp".  The reserve is located in the Sankuru region, an area that experienced extensive fighting during the long-running civil war in the Congo. ]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1119-congo.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Missing link between humans and apes possibly discovered]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A 10 million-year-old jawbone discovered in Kenya may represent a new species very close to the last common ancestor of gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans, report researchers writing in the current issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1112-ape.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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