Four Countries Are Home to Two-Thirds of the Planet’s Primates—and Most of Those Are Endangered
▻https://www.ecowatch.com/endangered-species-primates-2590146236.html
At last count, there were 505 nonhuman primate species living in the wilds of 90 countries across the globe. That might make you think of Earth as the Planet of the Apes (plus monkeys, lemurs, tarsiers and lorises), but according to a large study published last month, those statistics are a little misleading.
In truth, just four nations—Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)—harbor 65 percent of all primate species. And nearly two-thirds of the primates living in those hot spots (we’ll call them the Big Four) are facing extinction.
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▻https://peerj.com/articles/4869
