“New evidence of the peril facing the world’s apes, monkeys, lemurs and other primates, with one in every three now endangered with extinction, is revealed in a new report – The World’s Top 25 Most Endangered Primates-2002 released today by Conservation International (CI) and the Primate Specialist Group of IUCN — The World Conservation Union. Primate species and sub-species classified as critically endangered and endangered jumped nearly 63 percent from 120 to 195 since the initial report was issued in January 2000.”