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 …

Tropical forest and peatland conservation in Indonesia: Challenges and directions

ME Harrison, JB Ottay, LJ D'Arcy, SM Cheyne… - People and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical forests and peatlands provide important ecological, climate and socio‐economic
benefits from the local to the global scale. However, these ecosystems and their associated …

[图书][B] Decolonizing extinction: The work of care in orangutan rehabilitation

JS Parreñas - 2018 - books.google.com
In Decolonizing Extinction Juno Salazar Parreñas ethnographically traces the ways in which
colonialism, decolonization, and indigeneity shape relations that form more-than-human …

[HTML][HTML] Primates in peril: the significance of Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo for global primate conservation

A Estrada, PA Garber, RA Mittermeier, S Wich… - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
Primates in peril: the significance of Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia and the Democratic
Republic of the Congo for global primate conservation [PeerJ] Related research Download …

Conservation in a wicked complex world; challenges and solutions

ET Game, E Meijaard, D Sheil… - Conservation …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Most conservation challenges are complex and possess all the characteristics of so called
“wicked” problems. Despite widespread recognition of this complexity conservationists …

Apes in the Anthropocene: flexibility and survival

KJ Hockings, MR McLennan, S Carvalho… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2015 - cell.com
We are in a new epoch, the Anthropocene, and research into our closest living relatives, the
great apes, must keep pace with the rate that our species is driving change. While a goal of …

Global demand for natural resources eliminated more than 100,000 Bornean orangutans

M Voigt, SA Wich, M Ancrenaz, E Meijaard, N Abram… - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
Unsustainable exploitation of natural resources is increasingly affecting the highly
biodiverse tropics [1, 2]. Although rapid developments in remote sensing technology have …

People's perceptions about the importance of forests on Borneo

E Meijaard, NK Abram, JA Wells, AS Pellier… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
We ascertained villagers' perceptions about the importance of forests for their livelihoods
and health through 1,837 reliably answered interviews of mostly male respondents from 185 …

Global assessment of primate vulnerability to extreme climatic events

L Zhang, EI Ameca, G Cowlishaw, N Pettorelli… - Nature Climate …, 2019 - nature.com
Climate-change-driven alterations in the extent and intensity of extreme weather events may
have catastrophic consequences for primate populations. Using a trait-based approach, we …

Conservation and the social sciences: Beyond critique and co‐optation. A case study from orangutan conservation

L Chua, ME Harrison, H Fair, S Milne… - People and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Interactions between conservation and the social sciences are frequently characterized by
either critique (of conservation by social scientists) or co‐optation (of social scientific …