Global News - February 2008
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New Amazonian monkey 'already endangered'
Fri 08 February 2008 13:30 UK — South America,Primates
A scientist who found a previously unknown species of monkey in the Amazon rainforest has warned that it may already be endangered.
Jean-Phillipe Boubli of the University of Auckland was taken into the forest by native Yanomamo Indians and found the black uakari monkey near to the Brazil-Venezuela border, National Geographic reported.
However, after making his discovery Mr Boubli warned that the primate appeared to be under threat as a result of it being confined to a relatively small habitat and also at risk from local hunters.
"We're going to have to create a park or reserve, because [its habitat is] not a protected area," he told the magazine. "The population is quite small, so they are quite vulnerable. I'm a bit concerned.
"It's very important to define what those monkeys are doing there, how big their range is, because we want to make a case for the Brazilian government to create a reserve."
Figures published last month by the Brazilian government revealed that the Amazon area lost more than 3,200 square kilometres of rainforest in the last five months of 2007, four times as much as over the same period in 2004.
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