Is Social Media Saving or Enslaving the Slow Loris?: Anna Nekaris at TEDxNashville 

Web 2.0 resources have the power to reach millions of unique viewers, and to make unknown people, and animals, into celebrities overnight. Such has been the case for the slow lorises, a group of threatened primates from Southeast Asia. I describe how the prevalence of loris videos and photographs on the World Wide Web have both advanced our understanding of slow loris science and taxonomy but at the same time hindered their conservation.
Anna Nekaris is Professor in Primate Conservation and Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University, and course tutor of their world-reknowned MSc in Primate Conservation programme.She previously conducted long-term studies of Indian and Sri Lankan slender lorises and studied the community ecology of Sri Lanka's rainforest primates, including toque macaques and purple-faced langurs. In particular she has examined the effects of fragmentation on populations throughout Sri Lanka's sparse remaining rainforests. Her current research project looks at the diversity of Asian slow lorises, both in the field and using museum specimens. Morphological, genetic, behavioural and vocal analyses are being used to uncover diversity within this group, and are being used to develop long-term plans for their conservation. She currently leads an international programme The Little Fireface Project, working to conserve the slow loris through ecology, conservation education and empowerment of local people. She employs the power of social networking in her research to help reverse the negative impact it has had on slow loris conservation.
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