Dying Out
Posted: Thu 8 September, 2005 Filed under: News Leave a comment »According to one report, the great apes could all be extinct within a generation.
“All of the great apes are listed as either endangered or critically endangered,” co-author Lera Miles from the World Conservation Monitoring Centre near Cambridge told the BBC News website.
“Critically endangered means that their numbers have decreased, or will decrease, by 80% within three generations.”