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Humans are eating their closest relatives into extinction, particularly in Southeast Asia, alarmed conservationists have revealed.

Nearly half of the world's 634 species of monkeys, apes and other primates are in danger of going extinct, the world's top experts in primates were told at a meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland.

According to new data released by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) at the 22nd International Primatological Society, 303 of the primates species face the possibility of extinction in the world, while 69 species are critically endangered.

"Tropical forest destruction has always been the main cause, but now it appears that hunting is just as serious a threat in some areas, even where the habitat is still quite intact," said Russell A. Mittermeier, chairman of the IUCN Species Survival Commission's Primate Specialist Group.

"In many places, primates are quite literally being eaten to extinction," he added.

In Cambodia - the country with the worst record - 90 percent of the native primate species are struggling to survive, partly because they are hunted as ingredients for Chinese traditional medicine.

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