The Top 25 Most Endangered Primates:
• Greater bamboo lemur (Hapalemur simus)
Madagascar
• Perrier's sifaka (Propithecus perrieri)
Madagascar
• Silky sifaka (Propithecus candidus)
Madagascar
• Black-faced lion tamarin (Leontopithecus caissara)
Brazil
• Buff-headed capuchin (Cebus xanthosternos)
Brazil
• Northern muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus)
Brazil
• Miss Waldron's red colobus (Procolobus badius waldroni)
Côte d'Ivoire
• Roloway guenon (Cercopithecus diana roloway) and white-naped mangabey (Cercocebus atys lunulatus)
Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire
• Tana River mangabey (Cercocebus galeritus galeritus) and Tana River red colobus (Procolobus rufomitratus)
Kenya
• Sanje mangabey (Cercocebus galeritus sanjei)
Tanzania
• Natuna banded leaf monkey (Presbytis natunae)
Indonesia
• Pig-tailed snub-nosed monkey or "Simakobu" (Simias concolor)
Indonesia
• Delacour's langur (Trachypithecus delacouri)
Vietnam
• Golden-headed langur (Trachypithecus poliocephalus)
Vietnam
• White-headed langur (Trachypithecus leucocephalus)
China
• Gray-shanked douc (Pygathrix nemaeus cinerea)
Vietnam
• Tonkin snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus avunculus)
Vietnam
• Yunnan snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti)
China
• Guizhou snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus brelichi)
China
• Eastern black crested gibbon (Nomascus nasutus)
China and Vietnam
• Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei)
Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Uganda
• Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli)
Nigeria and Cameroon
• Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii)
Indonesia
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