Critter News
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Worldwide Primates Inc. was started by Mathew Block to import primates into the US for animal experimentation. Block pleaded guilty in February to felony conspiracy to violate the Lacey and Endangered Species Acts by conspiring to smuggle orangutans. According to this website , Worldwide Primates has received $2,411,795.00
Critter News
AUGUST 23, 2009
I've been reading a lot about threatened elephants and primate populations in Africa and wondered about lions. Kenya's lion population has dropped from an estimated 2,749 in 2002 to 2,280 in 2004 and probably just 2000 individuals in 2009. Tags: africa Kenya lion endangered species. The storyline is all too familiar.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2015
Ghana has the dubious distinction of being the first country to have lost a major primate species since the Convention on Biological Diversity came into force: Miss Waldron’s Red Colobus was declared extinct in 2000 due to forest destruction. Between 1990 and 2010, Ghana lost 33.7%
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