Great apes fall victim in headlong drive to mass extinction.

Scientists believe that the current rate of extinction is between 1,000 and 10,000 times the rate biologists would expect under normal conditions. Extinction is normal in biological systems, but very rare, often as low as one or two species a decade. The overwhelming reason species are dying out so fast is that humans are making their living spaces uninhabitable or are killing them outright.

The case of primates is among the most dire, says a companion report, Primates in Peril, released yesterday in Washington by Conservation International and the IUCN's Species Survival Commission.

The link to the full Globe and Mail article is below