Russell A. Mittermeier is currently Chief Conservation Officer of Re:wild (formerly Global Wildlife Conservation), a position he has occupied since 2017. Prior to this position, he served for three ...
IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group
Overview and description
Description:
Group leadership
Dr Russell MITTERMEIER
Russell A. Mittermeier is currently Chief Conservation Officer of Re:wild (formerly Global Wildlife Conservation), a position he has occupied since 2017. Prior to this position, he served for three years as Executive Vice Chair at Conservation International and as President of that organization from 1989 to 2014. Trained as a primatologist and herpetologist, he has traveled widely in 169 countries on seven continents and has conducted field work in more than 30 − focusing particularly on Amazonia (especially Brazil and Suriname), the Atlantic forest region of Brazil, and Madagascar. Since 1977, Mittermeier has served as Chairman of the IUCN Species Survival Commission Primate Specialist Group, and he has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Species Survival Commission since 1982.
More about the Specialist Group
Active throughout the tropical world, working in dozens of nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America, the PSG promotes and supports research on the ecology and conservation of the lorises, pottos, galagos, lemurs, tarsiers, monkeys and apes that make up the primate radiation. Now more than ever they need our intervention: 464, close to two thirds of the known 720 species and subspecies, are now categorized as threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened ...
The Primate Specialist Group is a network of scientists and conservationists who stand against the tide of extinction which threatens humanity’s closest kin.
Specialist Group work
The PSG works on behalf of these and all other primates by supporting field research, conservation measures and educational programs in those regions where primates still occur.
Assessing threatened status of the Order Primates through an understanding of their taxonomy, distributions, numbers and populations, and the threats they face taking into account their capacity to adapt to degraded and fragmented habitats
PSG’s primary responsibility is to evaluate the conservation status of all primate species and subspecies, working with current information from experts in the field.
Primates on the IUCN Red List
These assessments contribute to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, a comprehensive summary of threats to the world’s biodiversity.
Annual Report
Learn about PSG’s work and results in 2023.
Previous reports:
PSG Annual Report 2022
PSG Annual Report 2021
PSG Annual Report 2020
PSG Annual Report 2019
PSG Annual Report 2018
PSG Annual Report 2016-2017