News Reports

The full report, by John Oates, Scott McGraw and their colleagues, is scheduled to appear in the October edition of Conservation Biology, but this issue is not yet available online. The best general article on the extinction, with excellent supporting links, is on ENN at:

http://enn.com/news/enn-stories/2000/09/09132000/colobus_31387.asp

An excellent new article appeared today in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/sep00/monkey18091700a.asp

A general AP report from last Tuesday is available at ABCNews.com:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/monkey000912.html

Another article from ABCNews.com puts the extinction into broader and sobering perspective:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/extinction_primates000915.html

NPR's All Things Considered has an excellent four-minute interview with Scott McGraw available for those with RealPlayer:

http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20000912.atc.19.ram

The BBC also has an interview with Dr. Jane Goodall about the extinction, in the context of the commercialization of the bushmeat trade:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/940000/audio/_942967_goodall.ram

 

Related Articles

A report from an African-based news service on logging in Gabon, one of the two nations where Miss Waldron's Colobus was destroyed. Note that "more than half of Gabon's forests were allocated as logging concessions in 1997."

http://www.allafrica.com/stories/200008250376.html

A Reuters report on the global extinction crisis, rather basic but with a reference to Miss Waldron's Colobus:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000929/sc/environment_extinction_dc_1.html

 

TOP 25

For a list of the world's 25 most endangered primates, see Conservation International's report on Hotspots at:

http://www.conservation.org/Hotspots/report2.htm

For more background on the Top 25, see the in-depth page by the IUCN's Species Survival Commission:

http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/news/primates25.htm

A basic survey of endangered primates from a recent conference — including specific population estimates for known subspecies of chimpanzees and gorillas — is at ABCnews.com:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/apeconference000512.html

An earlier article, one of many that attended the release of CI's Top-25 list:

http://augustachronicle.com/stories/050900/tec_124-2727.shtml

 

Vanishing Primates

A general report on evanescent primate populations, including Miss Waldron's, from Primate Conservation, Inc.:

http://primate.org/news.htm

The first issue of African Primates, the newsletter of the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group for Africa, puts the silence from Miss Waldron's Colobus into wider perspective:

http://www.selu.com/bio/gorilla/news/apn1(1).html

The Syndey Morning Herald combines interviews from several leading primatologists, who predict that all four great ape species—orang-utans, gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos—will be extinct within the next ten to twenty years:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/0009/29/features/features1.html