Unregulated Human Provisioning of Primates: Advice for Conservation Practitioners

Recommendations for unregulated human provisioning of primates written by an interdisciplinary group of the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group Section on Human-Primate Interactions (SHPI). The SHPI was established in 2018 in response to increased interactions between humans and wild primates with the goal of better understanding their multi-dimensional nature and to provide conservation practioners with tools to manage interactions and promote coexistence.

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Citation: Waters, S.*, Hansen, M. F.*, Sengupta, A.*, Perry, L., Pebsworth, P. A., McKinney T., King, A. J., Rodrigues, M., Faradifa, A., Ellwanger, A. L. and Spaan, D. 2025. Unregulated Human Provisioning of Primates: Advice for Conservation Practitioners. IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group Section on Human-Primate Interactions

*Joint First Authors.

Corresponding Author: Siân Waters (psg.hpi@gmail.com)