The Roloway monkey is critically endangered with an unknown population due to habitat loss and illegal hunting within its native tropical forests in West Africa. The Silky Sifaka lemur is threatened by hunting for food and habitat destruction through burning of forests for rice fields and logging of rosewood trees in Madagascar. The Cotton-top tamarin, with an estimated population of only 6,000, is critically endangered due to over 75% of habitat loss to deforestation in its native forests from Costa Rica to northwestern Colombia.

1. Primates en peligro de extinción

2. • Status: Critically Endangered
• Habitat: Upper Guinean tropical
forests, Ghana and Ivory Coast and
may extend into Burkina Faso
• Population: Unknown; considered
to be "on the very verge of
extinction," according to the BZS,
due to habitat loss and illegal
hunting.
• Diet: Roloway monkeys consume
a diverse array of varying insects,
fruit, seeds, and flowers

3. Habitat: Madagascar
Threats: People are the
silkies’ main threat. Some
hunt them for food. Others
burn their forest habitat to
make room for rice fields.
Loggers also destroy silky
habitat when they cut down,
illegally, valuable rosewood
trees.
Diet: They eat primarily
leaves, flowers and seeds.
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4. Habitat: The Cottontop tamarin
is
small species of monkey found
in the forests of South America.
from Costa Rica to north western
Columbia. The Cottontop tamarin
was named because of its
elegant white fur that flows over
its head and shoulders.
Population: It´s a critically
endangered species with an
estimated wild cottontop tamarin
population of just 6,000. The
main reason for the severe
decline is that they have lost
more than 75% of their
natural habitat to deforestation.
Diet: The cotton-top tamarin has
a diet of mainly fruit (40%) and
animal material (40%). This
includes insects, plants and
occasionally reptiles and

5. Roloway Monkey Silky Sifaka
Lemur
Cotton-top Tamarin