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RSPCA Animal Welfare Footprint
Reptiles are up, wild birds are down, chickens are getting better but monkeys aren’t moving, according to a ground-breaking report from the RSPCA published Monday. The charity’s second annual...
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Sustainability: More than a Slogan
The Sustainable Furniture Council is a non-profit industry association founded at High Point, NC in October 2006 to promote sustainable practices among manufacturers, retailers, and consumers alike....
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WWF Paper Dispenser
The World Wildlife Federation ad campaigns consistently utilize their existing surroundings very well. Here we have a paper dispenser with South America cut out, and green foil to tint your view…...
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An Exotic Pet Trade
International Animal Rescue [IAR] have released a new factsheet, concerning the number of exotic animals captured and exported in the illegal pet trade. The trade in wild animals as pets causes...
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Amazon River Trip 2008
The World Wildlife Federation is offering the trip of a lifetime through the Amazon Rainforest between 7th-16th March 2008. You will sail down the river through the rainforest, on your way encountering...
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Tiny Bundle of Marmoset Joy at London Zoo
The Zoological Society of London [ZSL] is celebrating the birth of a new baby black-tailed marmoset – the very first of it’s kind in a Zoo! Only a few weeks old, the Marmoset only measures 12cm long....
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Pittsburgh Zoo Joins the Climate Campaign
Pittsburgh Zoo has started a new program called One Degree of Change, which is aimed at the local people of Pittsburgh or any community – to give them hints and tips on how they can help climate change...
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Retail Responsibly for Orangutans
Experts at Brookfield Zoo, Chicago, have called on us all to recognise the plight of the rare and diminishing species, the Orangutan. In a conference held on Thursday, Cheryl Knott, a leading Orangutan...
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New Guards Challenge Loggers
A new scheme has been put into place in Tanjung Puting National Park, Indonesia, to help curb the massive illegal logging problem. The park covers 416,000 hectares and is home to 4000 Orangutans, 30...
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Primate Behaviour and Conservation Field Course in Costa Rica
The State University of New York and East Stroudsburg University are running Primate Behaviour and Conservation Field Courses in their research centre in North-East Costa Rica. The course is aimed at...
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Two Years Left to Save Wild Orangutans from Extinction!
Dutch ecologist Willie Smits says he will never forget the day in October 1989 when he saw the desperately sad eyes of an orangutan baby looking at him from a dark cage on a market in the Indonesian...
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Jane Goodall: What separates us from the apes?
Traveling from Ecuador to Africa, Jane Goodall takes the audience on an ecological journey, discussing highlights and low points of her experiences in the jungle. She shows how progress is helping...
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Global Warming Up, Peace Prize Down
Just a few days after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr., findings of a study have been released by the National...
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Wildlife Pays the Price for Myanmar Chinese Demand
The remaining wild elephants, tigers and bears in Myanmar’s forests are being hunted down slowly and sold to China. Nestled in hills in a rebel-controlled enclave on the Chinese border, the “Las Vegas...
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The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates
ScienceDaily reported today, in an article entitled “Primates: Extinction Threat Growing For Mankind’s Closest Living Relatives”, about a report titled “Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most...
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The Rainforest Foundation – Action Alert
The first-ever law in Africa guarding against the discrimination, exploitation and violence endured by indigenous peoples could be passed in the Republic of Congo by the end of 2007. The Rainforest...
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Primate’s Closest Relative Identified
New research has suggested that a rare mammal called a colugo is the closest genetic relative of all primates, including humans. Over the past decade, several candidates for the closest mammalian...
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FONG Illustrations for Prime Concern
Prime Concern would like to thank Graphic Designer Peter Fong for his design for the Prime Concern blog header. Fong, 25 graduated from Bowling Green State University and is now working as a designer...
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Julia Quick: Thesis Trip to South Africa
Ever since I decided to enrol on the Animal Behaviour and Welfare MSc at QUB, I have had my heart set on going abroad to study Primates in the field for my thesis research. I have been lucky enough to...
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WWF Christmas Adoption
Think outside the box this Christmas, with a gift that could brighten up a stocking and save an endangered species! WWF are offering adoption packages for a range of animals, such as Snow Leopards,...
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S.1930 – Combat Illegal Logging Act of 2007
As we all know, illegal logging is one of the major factors contributing towards species loss, decreasing biodiversity, habitat destruction and increased greenhouse gases. However, there are no laws or...
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UN Climate Change Conference Finally at an End!
The UN Climate Change Conference in Bali was concluded this week on a high after the long awaited submission of the United States to the agreement that will form the basis of the successor to the Kyoto...
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Marks & Spencer to receive 2008 World Environment Center Gold Medal
The World Environment Center’s (WEC) Twenty-Fourth Annual Gold Medal for International Corporate Achievement in Sustainable Development has been awarded to Marks & Spencer for linking...
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GAFI Films for Conservation Education
Whilst browsing Primate awareness charities the other day, pondering inventive fundraising ideas, I came across the GAFI Initiative. It caught my eye due to the fact it was promoting conservation...
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Tiny Tarsier Caught on Film
The BBC website has a 2 minute 45 second clip of one of the smallest primates in the world in its Earth News section. The Spectral Tarsier is notoriously difficult to catch on film, as not only is it...
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Jane Goodall Institute Celebrates Half Centenary
2010 marks a very special year for the Jane Goodall Institute and its founder. Fifty years ago, Jane first set foot on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, in what is now Tanzania’s Gombe National Park, and...
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‘Green’ Palm Oil Goes Into The Red
After it became popular knowledge that Palm Oil production was linked to massive deforestation, people were calling for the companies to find greener ways to produce the Palm Oil – and prove it....
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AOP Palm Oil Facebook Thread
I came across a discussion thread on the Australian Orangutan Project‘s Facebook group set up by the general public for the general public. It is basically a great pool of knowledge from people who...
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Bolivian Circus Baboon!
A Baboon that was rescued from awful conditions in a Bolvian Circus has been shipped over to the UK to live out its old age in a Berkshire monkey sanctuary. The Bolivian government handed over Tilin,...
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10.10.10
Greenpeace International has teamed up with 350.org, 10:10 and other worthwhile organisations to host a Global Work Party on 10/10/10. It’s an international initiative, and already has many events...
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