Russell A. Mittermeier

TL;DR: It is hoped this synthesis improves understanding of these prioritization approaches and that it results in more efficient allocation of geographically flexible conservation funding.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the Eastern Arc and Coastal Forests of Tanzania-Kenya, Philippines, and Polynesia-Micronesia can least afford to lose more habitat and that, if current deforestation rates continue, the Caribbean, Tropical Andes, Philippines and Me- soamerica, Sundaland, Indo-Burma, Madagascar, and Choco-Darien-Western Ecuador will lose the most habitat in the near future.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the development of the hotspots over the past two decades and present an analysis of their biodiversity, updated to the current set of 35 regions and discuss past and future efforts needed to conserve them, sustaining their fundamental role both as a substantial fraction of global biodiversity and as the ultimate source of many ecosystem services upon which humanity depends.

TL;DR: Raising global scientific and public awareness of the plight of the world’s primates and the costs of their loss to ecosystem health and human society is imperative.