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UN environmental agency launches 11th hour bid to save great apes

1 September 2005
In a bid to mobilize global support for an 11th-hour effort to save humankind's closest living relatives from extinction, the United Nations environmental agency today launched the most comprehensive compendium of information about great apes ever compiled.

$25 million needed to save great apes from extinction, UN agencies say

26 November 2003
Humankind’s closest living relatives, the great apes, are on the brink of extinction and $25 million is urgently needed to lift the threat, a United Nations sponsored crisis meeting was told today.

Continued destruction of African forests threatens great apes habitat, UN agency says

3 September 2002
If the construction of roads, mining camps and other infrastructure continues at current levels for the next 30 years, the great apes of Africa will have less than 10 per cent of their remaining habitat "relatively undisturbed," according to a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released today.