loris

• Despite the fact that owning a slow loris as a pet or trading it is illegal in all range countries and "all countries where primates as pets are illegal," the species is still heavily trafficked, says Dr. Anna Nekaris, an anthropologist who specializes in slow-loris research at Oxford Brookes University. —  Mongabay.com News
• (05 / 09 / 2007) The slow loris, a big-eyed primate found in the rainforests of southeast Asia, is threatened by the international pet trade said ProFauna Indonesia, a wildlife activist group that has called for a ban on the illegal trafficking of the charismatic animal. —  Mongabay.com News
• (06 / 11 / 2007) CITES delegates agreed to a total ban on trade in the slow loris, a Southeast Asian primate commonly trafficked for the pet trade. —  Mongabay.com News
• "In many cases the short term cash gain from selling wildlife is so attractive to local communities they don't worry much about the long term loss of food resources," said Troy Hansel of WCS-Laos, citing a recent example of a slow loris, a fully protected species, being sold for 5000 kip ($0.58) in a roadside village of Nam Et-Phou Louey. —  Mongabay.com News
• Definitely worth the trip from Yorkshire to Suffolk to see him ... slender-loris —  Drowned In Sound // Feed

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