With so many people here to read last week’s Monkey Island, SC post, it seems poignant to show off a listing of primates around the world that are endangered right now, so take a second to enjoy the faces of all these primates, because who knows, they may not be here tomorrow.

Rondo Dwarf Galago Galagoides rondoensis	Ceylon Mtn. Slender Loris Loris tardigradus nycticeboides	Greater Bamboo Lemur Prolemur simus	Brown Spider Monkey Ateles hybridus
Pennant’s Red Colobus Procolobus p. pennantii	Simakobu Simias concolor	White-Collared Lemur Eulemur albocollaris	Brown-headed Spider M. Ateles f. fusciceps
Tana River Red Colobus Procolobus rufomitratus	Siau Island Tarsier Tarsius sp. nov.	Silky Sifaka Propithecus candidus	Yellow-tailed Woolly M. Oreonax flavicauda
Roloway Guenon Cercocebus diana roloway	Delacour’s Langur Trachypithecus delacouri	Sahamalaza Sportive L. Lepilemur sahamalazensis
Miss Waldron’s Red Colobus Procolobus badius waldroni	Cat Ba Langur Trachypithecus p. poliocephalus
Kipunji Rungwecebus kipunji	Western Purple-faced Langur Semnopithecus vetulus nestor
Cross River Gorilla Gorilla gorilla diehli	Grey-Shanked Douc Pygathrix cinerea
	Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey Rhinopithecus avunculus
	Hainan Gibbon Nomascus hainanus
	W. Hoolock Gibbon Hoolock hoolock
	Sumatran Orangutan Pongo abelii

As you can see, most are from Asia – the world’s largest continent – and then from Africa, with Madagascar and the neo-tropics of South America coming in 4th.

For more information, please read the IUCN’s article ‘Primates in Peril:
The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates.

Images courtesy of the IUCN.

Ironically, there have just been more than 100,000 rare gorillas found in Congo.

We have a habit of making it to the top (or bottom) of national lists from time to time here in South Carolina, and it looks like we’ve done it again.

The Wateree River, which is downstream of North Carolina’s Catawba River, gets us to the top of the list this time.

Requirements for getting on the ‘Most Endangered River’ list include: energy development, sewage pollution, over-development, and the effects they have on a river for a given year.

I hope our state government does the right thing and steps up for us. Water is such an important part of our lifestyle here in South Carolina, whether upstate with the lakes and rivers, or here on the coast with our creeks and beaches.