Ken Banks on primate conservation

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Ken Banks, one of our Collaboration Fellows, spoke today about his work doing primate conservation in Africa. Here is with a brief overview.

One of the biggest things you can do to help is avoid products with palm oil -- lots of monkeytowns (a nontechnical term) are converted into palm plantations, furthering the problem with habitat reduction.

Ken's website is kiwanja.net, and his blog is blogspot.kiwanja.net.

UPDATE: Ken forwarded me a great (but sad) article about some of the specific problems with palm farming and orangutans on Borneo.

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