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1
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name some threats to primates

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  • habitat destruction (i.e. deforestation, burning, selective logging)
  • hunting pressures
  • biomedical research
  • zoos/poaching/bushmeat
  • climate change
  • industrial activities
  • zoonosis
2
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what type of primate is more at risk

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folivoourous primates due to low reproducition rates and habitat-reliance (higher population denesitieis)

frugiovorus in contrast have higher lower population densities

3
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what is one primate adaptation response

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guensons in congo drop to undergrowth now as opposed to trees when fleeing in canopy

4
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what is one of the negative effects of having less primates?

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lack of pollinators/dispereses= shit ecocystem

5
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value of primates to humans/

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understand HIV

understand our evolutionary history

play a key role in ecology

6
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what type of primate has actually increased in response to deforestation

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black macaques in logged forests= migrate to cities and predators are gone= increased population growth

7
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poistive affect of selective logging on primates

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  • creates caps in vegetations= results in heteregenous growth= variety of foods (proteins, fibre) is good for GENERALIST primates
    i. e. why brown colobus monkeys arent fine but red colobus are in Kibale National Park
8
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why do hunting pressures increase with logging pressures

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increased demand for workers for meat= logging raids remove forest to make it easier to hunt
- higher demand for bushmeat

9
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affect of climate change

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foods decline and ecocystem shift
seasonal breeding
increased fire risk
less rain fall

10
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affect of disease on primates

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increased by climate change 
increaes zoonosis (hiv, etc) as apes more suspesitory to human respisatory diesaes 

i.e. ebola killed 90% of lowland gorillas in 2004 congo

11
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conservation policies type

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  1. economic incentivies
  2. increase public awareness
  3. policy-making/NGO
12
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primates that create agricultural damange?

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  • japanese macaques

- long tailed macaques

13
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sustainable forest management cons

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costs of preservation usually not enough to actually work

14
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ecotourism cons

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is unreliable as itself is damaging/unpredictable (natural disasters, war)

increases zoonosis, humanization and pollution

humanization risk and animal welfare (mental health anad violence)

higher infanty mortailiy in zoos

nutrition issues (tourists feed)

cirvuziation

15
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possible international incentive success?

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debt exchange for conservation in international icnentivies like in costa rica

16
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education pgorammes pros

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stimulate conservation
research

e.g. roots and shoots foundation

17
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what do ngos do?

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influence policy making
increase reserach
support conservation
engage in sponsership for local initiatives 9IUCN )
pool information toeter for access/awareness
factiliate dialouge with government

18
Q

what happens to displaced primates?

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  1. rescue
  2. translocation
  3. rehabillitation
  4. release
19
Q

ethical considerations of release sites

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tend to be far away from human settlements with natural resources

(issue when little habitat left + how to protect the land)

issue of WHERE to release (speciation?)

20
Q

transolation

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when wild adults enter a human space and local authoriies/ngos dart, net and health check the animal and place them back to their space (displaced animals)

21
Q

release sites?

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special protected natural habitat where they are release

22
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rehabillitation

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process of helping primates recover and gain surivval skills and then slowly reintegrating them into their natural habitat

23
Q

commonly displaced primates?

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macaques
gibbons 
lorises
howler monkeys 
orangutatns
24
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issues in sumatra + borneo

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high deforestation (industry, mining, palm oil)
high habitat destruction
palm oil 
fire and industrial agriculture
hunting
pet trade
poach
zoo trade
25
Q

palm oil: approaches?

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in many common prouducts (EU CHINA INdia)

  1. boycott
  2. sustainable palm oil
26
Q

why is hunting less in sumatra

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islamic taboo of eatinb bushmeat

27
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why are orangutatns traded

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seen as a status symbol in HR officials

human-wildlife conflict (i.e. displaced primates in palm oil plantations)

28
Q

orangutatn habitats

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rain forests

peat forests

29
Q

types of orangutans

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pongo pygmaes (bornean)

pongo abelii (sumatran)

pongo tapanulerisis (Bathan Toro)

30
Q

tracking ethical issues

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difficult
expensive
means that normally its difficult to ‘track’ surivval success of released primates

31
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orangutatn release considerations

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competition vs overcrowding vs reproductive needs

with limited territory;
where to release without disrupting orangutan social structure? (they are territorial/have their own areas)
where to release where there ARENT alreayd orangutants there?

acceptability to release different species in an area? (purity conservation: borenan vs sumatran)

32
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pros of ecotourism

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education
outreach
awareness
gives economic value to orangutans and allows for funding

33
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funding ethics

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centres are underfunded

thus is it ok to accept money from palm oil companies as it delegates their responsbility

34
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‘unreleasable’ ethics

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  • danger, disease, disaability and social behaviour; should these be euthanized or money be spent on keeping them in zoos/alive/further rehab?
35
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great ape project

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by peter singer and paola cavalieri; aims to gain apes with basic personhood rights

  • -> against speciciem
  • -> employes the use of ‘guardians’ to speak as legal safegurads for primates (like with infants/disablied people)
  • -> sees human expansion of equality as a historical process (UN declaration of human rights, sivil rights slavery)

–> wants to get rid of animal experimitation and attribute personhood rights (right to life, liberty and prohibition of torture)

36
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orion o’neill and deontological anthropocentrism

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an instrumentalist approach; humans are the primary subjects but its in their interests to pursue and preserev a good ecoyststem;

37
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mark sagoff 1984 quote

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‘environmentalista cant be animal liberationists and animal liberationstis cant be environmentalists’

38
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peter singer + animal liberation 1975

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deontological theory; rejects specisicms

sees an individual as having rights base don capacity to suffer

39
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aldo leopold and land ethic

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utaliitarian/consequentalist theory; holistic value of the biotic community (1999)

humans have a moral responsibile to natural world BALANCE

40
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hill and webber 2010: naturalistic fallacy quote

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primate behaviour is often meaured with the same moral/social frameworks as humans where boundaries are progressed and they are subjected to human cultural norms

41
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humanists

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restrict personhood to humans

42
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post-humanists

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give personhood to animals based on their sentience, agency and complex cognititon skills