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Juan Carlos Guix, Colaborador de la Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

Declining primate numbers are threatening Brazil's Atlantic forest

El muriqui del sur, endémico de Brasil, está en peligro de extinción. Rob Jansen / Shutterstock

We tend to think of debt as purely financial, but we can also reap what we sow in the natural world through what is known as extinction debt. This concept refers to changes in the past that affect a species’ survival in the future.

Ecosystems often undergo profound and dramatic changes, but their effects are not always obvious to the naked eye. These changes are increasingly caused or triggered by humans.

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