Conservationists Sound Alarm over Long-Tailed Macaque

in Animal News

The long-tailed macaque is being threatened with extinction by a huge surge in international trade and the destruction of its habitat in Southeast Asia, conservationists said on July 15. Species Survival Network (SSN), an international coalition of more than 80 charities, says trade in the species had more than doubled in the second half of the last decade.

Link: Agence France-Presse/The Independent (U.K.)

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