Report: 1 in 4 mammal species threatened with extinction

I am sure if you ask Sarah P, she will tell you "we don't know what is happening to them, for sure... we will need a 10 year study to see if this is caused by man"

The matrix (movie) was correct. We are a fungus who that spreads uncontrollably and consumes everything around us.

Let's hope that a rare and endangered species returns to Washington D.C, the honest public servant . Instead we have Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, et. al. champions of man-made global warming, endangered species, and Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac endanger. Unfortunately, these 'pet projects' us more than the loss of the Tonkin snubnose monkey.

Return the honest public servant to our towns, cities, states and country and the rest will fall into place... including saving the desperately needed Tonkin snubnose monkey.

By the way, why don't these articles mention the countless new species that are found in these same regions annuallly? Censor much?

Seen any?

"The matrix (movie) was correct. We are a fungus..."

Actually, the movie said we are a "virus", not a fungus. Same result though - humans suck

Oh no, the Tonkin snubnose monkey is threatened!
We are alll going to die! AIEEE!!!!!!
Google "new species found" and see what you find. For example a new species of monkey was found earlier this year.

The people of Vietnam have a right to do what they can to feed their families and create a prosperous economy. It is not up to us elitist westerners to tell them how to live any more than we might want the Iraqis to have a democracy. Somehow environmentalist extremists tend to forget that humans are animals too. I don't see them sacrificing the welfare of their families for the sake of a threatened species, just other people's failies.

When you write, "one of every four mammals on the planet is threatened with extinction", do you mean, one of every four species of mammals, or one of every four mammals?

I lived in Vietnam for six years and spent three of them directly involved in the conservation efforts of two organizations, Fauna & Flora International and Education for Nature-Vietnam. Make no mistake, Vietnamese people also want to protect their environment. The existence of an anonymous hotline for people to report wildlife crime (run by ENV, a _national_ NGO) and the huge volume of calls it receives is testament to that. It is ignorant to suggest that conservation is a western ideal imposed on poor Vietnamese by elitist outsiders.
The main force driving the poaching in Vietnam's forests is the appetite for exotic meats of the growing middle class, not to mention the demand from China. In spite of animal protection laws, you can go to dozens of restaurants just in Hanoi- not to mention the rest of the country- and easily order a rare animal, or a shot of whiskey with bile sucked out of the gall bladder of a captive bear.
The majority of people involved in the capture and trafficking of these species are not poor subsistence farmers as some people assume. They are criminals who are part of wide-reaching networks in an illegal trade that makes almost as much money as drugs worldwide (Interpol estimates the illegal wildlife trade to be worth between $10-20 Billion annually). It is illegal to hunt and trade the Tonkin Snub-nosed monkey, just as it illegal to make and sell methamphetamine, but I bet the people who naively claim that Vietnamese people "have a right to do what they can to feed their families and create a prosperous economy" would not say the same about the desperate rural folks in US backwaters who make meth rocks in their trailers.
Vietnam is a poor country without many resources to fund conservation and law enforcement, so foreign orgs come in and pick up the tab. Of course they also have their own agendas, but the Vietnamese government makes sure each conservation project will somehow benefit Vietnamese people. While obviously there are people at all levels of society involved in poaching and trafficking of endangered species, it is incorrect to affect the stance that people only do it because of desperation to feed their families. They do it because the opportunity exists to get a huge payoff for a low-risk (because of poor law enforcement) and high-yield activity.