New list of primates in peril aims to focus attention and inspire action

ANTANANARIVO — For more than six decades, the International Primatological Society (IPS) has brought scientists, conservationists and educators from around the world together every two years to exchange ideas and drive primate research and conservation. The 30th IPS Congress welcomed nearly 800 participants from around the world to Madagascar, the “Land of Lemurs.” It’s a long-standing tradition of the congress to publish a list of the world’s 25 most threatened primates to draw attention to species at particularly high risk and inspire action to protect them. Drawn up as a collaboration between the IPS, the Primate Specialist Group of the IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority; and conservation NGO Re:wild, this recurring initiative highlights that more than two in five of the w