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31-8-00: Defying Nature's End: A Blueprint for Saving the Planet; PASADENA, California, August 31, 2000 (ENS) - The Earth is in trouble. Ecosystems are fragmented, species are vanishing, the climate is changing. But it is not too late for humans to choose to save the natural world, and themselves. That was the premise behind an extraordinary conference held last week in Pasadena, in which scientists, environmentalists and business leaders worked to draft a blueprint for saving the planet.

29-8-00: Un'altra fuga dallo zoo, finita bene questa volta: A male orangutan made a brief escape from the Washington National Zoo.

26-8-00: Anche in Giappone ci sono oggi problemi per il pensionamento di scimpanzè che un tempo servivano per la ricerca biomedica: A Japanese drugs company that got monkeys is now struggling to downsize its former 'workers' - chimpanzees who helped develop a new vaccine. The 117 chimps were used by the pharmaceutical firm to help its drug research. The chimps are not claiming redundancy or severance pay but the company, Sanwa Kagaku Kenkyusho, now want the apes off their payroll. It is costing the firm £1.5 million to keep the monkeys at a specially-built colony ran by 15 park keepers.

25-8-00: conferenza--"Animal Social Complexity and Intelligence" a Chicago. Qui un articolo della Chicago Tribune. su un incontro fra i 27 maggiori esperti mondiali su vari modelli animali, non solo i primati.

24-8-00: Un'altra vittoria dei gruppi che combattono per la protezione delle foreste: Wow! Yet another home improvement company has committed to phasing out products harvested from endangered ancient forests. 84 Lumber becomes the seventh home improvement company; joining Home Depot, Lowe's, Menard's, HomeBase, Lanoga, and Wickes Lumber (in order of size) to commit to not selling products made from remaining old growth forests, and to the reform of the global forest products industry.

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15-8-00: Simon Bearder's MSc in Primate Conservation has now been validated and will run from late September 2000 at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Further details about the course are available on the Primate Society of Great Britain website: http://www.psgb.org/ or from Simon Bearder Email: skbearder@brookes.ac.uk Tel: (+44) 01865-483760 (Department of nthropology)

14-8-00: World Bank Report Finds That Its Own Policies Harm Forests An internal World Bank study found that its economic advice often increases logging in virgin forests, so the bank may soon attach pro-forest conditions to its policy loans for the first time.

25-7-00: All'API e alle altre organizzazioni che si preoccupano per la drammatica situazione di alcune specie di antropomorfe, sempre più minacciate di estinzione, ... si unisce ora (per fortuna) anche il parlamento USA: il 25-7-00 la camera ha approvato il GREAT APE CONSERVATION ACT OF 2000, che prevede di finanziare con 5 milioni di $$ per 4 anni (2001-2005) the conservation programs of countries within the range of great apes and projects of persons with demonstrated expertise in the conservation of great apes. ll 26/7/00 il progetto, approvato dalla Camera è passato alll'esame del Senato americano.

25-7-00: Zoo chimpanzee electrocuted; escaped from Dallas Zoo, dies after touching power line. A zoo veterinarian shot the chimpanzee with a tranquilizer, forcing it to briefly scamper along a power line before it was electrocuted and fell to the ground.

25-7-00: Gabon ends logging in key wildlife area (Wildlife Conservation Society) In a unique agreement with logging companies and conservation organizations, the Government of Gabon has agreed to end logging in the 1,900-square-mile Lopé Reserve, home to the highest density of large mammals ever recorded in a tropical rain forest, the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced today. The region supports a mosaic of forests, savannas and mountains that contain gorillas, elephants, mandrills, chimpanzees and a wealth of other species, some found nowhere else on Earth. It also contains archaeological remains without parallel in all of Central Africa, including stone tools dating back 350,000 years and an astonishing collection of over 2,000 rock engravings. Until recently, logging had been permitted within the reserve through a legal loophole that opened more than half of the original area to some form of deforestation. In the new agreement, which was signed on July 11th, the boundaries of the reserve will change, giving over a less biologically rich area to a logging company, but adding and protecting an area of significant biodiversity originally slated for logging.

24-7-00: Wildlife casualties add to death toll in Congo (CNN) -- Protected wildlife are the latest victims of the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Unless peace is restored soon in the central African rainforest, especially the northern region, much of the Congo's priceless wildlife heritage could be lost forever, conservationists say. Protected species including gorillas, chimpanzees, elephants, and rare okapis are among the wildlife casualties in this part of the Congo. The conflict, which has claimed untold thousands of human casualties, has brought heavily armed soldiers to a region that was once largely undisturbed. With an estimated 35,000 troops in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, the UNESCO World Heritage Site is now reportedly a major source of meat for soldiers.

24-7-00: Anche in Italia esiste un fiorente mercato dei primati da appartamento? Non c'è dubbio, dato che 10 Saimiri sono stati rubati oggi dal Parco Faunistico 'Le Cornelle' di Bergamo: Valbrembo Dall'Eco di Bergamo del 25/7 Dieci scimmie sono state rubate nella notte tra domenica e ieri al parco faunistico «Le Cornelle» di Valbrembo. Si tratta di esemplari della specie Saimiri - animali minuscoli, gli adulti non arrivano al chilogrammo di peso, conosciuti come scimmie scoiattolo - richiestissimi sul mercato clandestino. Già quindici giorni fa i ladri erano entrati in azione alle Cornelle rubando due esemplari. «Forse si tratta delle stesse persone - confida Nadia Benedetti, responsabile del parco - che sono tornate probabilmente perché non erano soddisfatte del bottino raccolto due settimane fa. A noi ogni scimmia di questa specie costa dai due milioni e mezzo ai tre; sul mercato clandestino arrivano ad essere pagate anche il doppio». Tre scimmiette erano già state rubate in autunno e poi ritrovate in un negozio del Milanese.

23-7-00: Bushmeat Hunters Push Primates Towards Extinction(AP)

19-7-00: Golden lion tamarins reintroduction Project - a Success Story (National Geographic news)

16-7-00: Sono stati messi in rete i dati (provenienti dall'U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service LEMIS [Law Enforcement Management Information Service]) sull'importazione di primati negli USA:

13-7-00: LOS ANGELES, July 13 -- A new state-of-the-art $6.5 million Red Ape Rain Forest opened today at the Los Angeles Zoo to house its four orangutan residents. For the first time ever, Zoo visitors can observe the great apes by actually immersing themselves in a naturalistic representation of the orangutans' natural habitat. This 6,000-square-foot habitat represents revolutionary concept, design and habitat engineering geared toward providing animals with a safe, stimulating and natural environment. The exhibit's completion is indicative of the Zoo's commitment to improving animal welfare while maximizing visitor enjoyment and education. C'e' anche (non acora in funzione) una webcam

11-7-00: MADRID, Spain (AP) - Customs officers at Madrid's airport confiscated three pint-sized Bolivian monkeys smuggled in a man's suitcases, police said Tuesday. The two brown and white Capuchin monkeys and one small Bolivian squirrel monkey, which weigh only a few pounds each, are endangered in Bolivia, said Spain's Civil Guard. The monkeys were given to Spain's Safari Park zoo southwest of Madrid.

8-7-00: New York: inizia battaglia legale per confiscare un Cercopithecus diana detenuto da un privato: Roman Flikshtein and his family have a message for the state: Stay away from my people-loving, ice cream-licking pet monkey! Flikshtein, a 48-year-old Brooklyn man, has vowed to barricade himself in his home and protect Cookie, his beloved 9-pound primate, from being seized from the Department of Environmental Conservation, which earlier this week cleared a legal hurdle allowing it to take Cookie because she is an endangered species.

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