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Extinction threat growing for mankind's closest living relatives Mankind`s closest living relatives - the world`s apes, monkeys, lemurs and other primates - are under unprecedented threat from destruction of tropical forests, illegal wildlife trade and commercial bushmeat hunting, with 29 percent of all species in danger of going extinct, according to a new report by the Primate Specialist Group of IUCN`s Species Survival Commission (SSC) and the International Primatological Society (IPS), in collaboration with Conservation International (CI).
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