Thread by @ClimateBen

BREAKING: the percentage of primate species threatened with extinction has risen from 60% in 2017 (75% in decline) to 66% in 2021 (85% in decline) 🧵

🧵1. Paul A. Garber and Alejandro Estrada, primate conservation researchers and co-authors on a 2017 article on primate extinction.

'Much has changed over the past 4 to 5 years, and none of the changes benefit primate population persistence.' inverse.com/science/primat…

🧵2. 'Deforestation of tropical rainforest continues, as large agribusiness companies and governments continue to convert natural habitats to monocultures and fragmented and polluted landscapes for products that are consumed by people in a smaller number of rich nations.'

🧵3. 'In addition, Indigenous Peoples, who have used their homelands sustainably for millennia, are being forced off these lands by colonists, governments, the creation of roads and other infrastructure, and legal and illegal mining.' inverse.com/science/primat…

🧵4. 'Climate change also is contributing to the primate extinction crisis.

Perhaps the most startling statistic is that in 2017.. 55% of primate species were listed as vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered, and 75% had declining populations.inverse.com/science/primat…

🧵5. 'Today, approximately 66 percent of primate species are listed as vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered and 85 percent of species have declining populations.

We should care because primates are our closest biological relatives.'

inverse.com/science/primat…

🧵6. The global growth economy is a monstrous machine relentlessly killing life on Earth. It must be stopped.

See this thread for more on species extinction:

https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1437519595456409604?s=20

It's not too late to limit the doom.