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Primate Conservation Inc PCI

( Non Governmental Organization )

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Activities: Activist, Research
 
Type: Non Governmental Organization
 
Scope: national
 
Website: www.primate.org
 
Main Email: nrowe [at] primate.org
 
Phone: 401 364 7140
 
Fax: 401 364 6785
 
Headquarters: 1411 Shannock Rd
Charlestown, Rhode Island 02813
United States
 
Local Time: Tue Nov 24 04:33:00
 

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About PCI



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.

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