Save+a+Spider+Monkey

=Save A Spider Monkey =

Some kinds of spider monkeys are endangered. Why is this true?

 * So many spider monkeys have been shot for food that they are absent from much of their former range.
 * They are vulnerable because they have low maturation and reproduction rates.
 * Their habitat, mature rain forests, is being lost to farming at the rate of 35,000 acres a day.

How to save the spider monkeys?
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 * People have worked together to form groups like the PRIMENET Project.
 * They will teach people who live near the monkeys to protect them and not hunt them.
 * Other people are using satellites to check out the rain forests to make sure they are not being destroyed.