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Gelada monkeys, West Africa's extinction crisis, and Dr. Vera Rousseau on fifteen years watching baboons.
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The Western Primate League started the way most good things do — a small group of people in Seattle who cared too much to stay quiet. We were researchers, writers, and conservationists frustrated by a simple truth: the primates most in need of attention were the ones nobody was talking about.
For years we operated locally, building our network one conversation at a time from the Pacific Northwest. But the problems we were documenting didn't stop at a regional border — and neither did our ambition.
We are now the International Monkeys and Apes Association, and we are just getting started. Seattle is still home base. But our reach is growing fast, and we are building something the primate world has genuinely never had before: a serious, globally-minded organization that makes people actually care.
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Includes the Hainan gibbon — possibly the world's rarest primate, with fewer than 30 individuals left on a single island.
Chimpanzees, bonobos, and both orangutan species — each facing ongoing habitat destruction and poaching.
The Gelada, mandrills, and dozens of lesser-known species — at risk but still saveable.
"The Miss Waldron's red colobus was declared extinct in 2000 — the first primate lost in the modern era. Researchers quietly worry it won't be the last."
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The Gelada, West Africa's forgotten primates, and Dr. Rousseau on fifteen years watching baboons.
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