Wild primate populations are declining across Africa, Asia, and Latin America as habitat destruction forces them into smaller, more fragmented ranges with increasing human conflict.
Wild primate welfare is compromised at the individual level by snare injuries, crop raids and retaliatory violence, and resource competition in fragmented habitats. At the population level, inbreeding, disease transmission in concentrated populations, and loss of learned cultural knowledge compound the crisis. Human-wildlife conflict resolution programs — compensation schemes, electric fencing, beehive barriers — address both human interests and primate welfare simultaneously.