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Primate Conservation, Inc.,
(PCI) is an all volunteer not for profit foundation [501(c)(3)] dedicated to
studying, preserving and maintaining the habitats of the least known and most
endangered primates in the world. Over 100 species, approaching half of all primates, are
threatened or endangered. The tropical forests where most primates live are disappearing
at an alarming rate.
Jane Goodall and others who have done field studies of primates
in their natural habitat have shown that dedicated individuals are one of the keys to
successful conservation. PCI provides grants to support the next generation of researchers
and conservationists in the field. These grantees research the needs of species,
focusing the attention of local people and the world. In many cases they are the
endangered primates only defense against hunters and loggers.
Noel Rowe, author of The Pictorial Guide to the Living Primates,
founded PCI in 1992 after witnessing the destruction of a lowland forest in Madagascar. |
Since
our first grant in 1993 we have supported with full or partial or renewal
funding 235 projects in 27 countries with primate habitats. Projects in Asia
have received 40% of our funding, African projects 30%, Madagascar 19%,
and South America 11%. Grants have gone to study leaf monkeys (25%), apes
(21%), lemurs (19%), cheek pouch monkeys (16%), new world monkeys (11%),
prosimians (5%), and tarsiers (3%). Without PCI’s support many of these projects might never
have been accomplished. PCI has supported projects on endangered primates including
the Tonkin snub-nosed monkey and the douc langur in Vietnam, the black gibbon in China,
Sclater’s guenon in Nigeria, the greater bamboo lemur in Madagascar. In order to save this vast store house of the natural world's biodiversity, many
more people need to be involved in conservation.
The people PCI supports are committed to protect these species
and their habitats. You can help PCI fund researchers in the tropical forests doing this
important conservation work. Without their dedication under difficult physical conditions
some of these endangered primates will be lost.
Over 86% of PCI's budget goes directly to field projects in habitat
countries. Contributions are tax-deductible. |
