Settlement and forest clearance have not progressed at the required rate.
But even with the best will, Guyana needs to undertake some forest clearance.
In the dry season it is a straightforward process to set fires for forest clearance.
They seem to have died out between 1000 and 2000 years ago, perhaps due to large-scale forest clearance for farming.
They may have attempted to manipulate resources through forest clearance.
Native ecosystems were being destroyed through forest clearance and development of subdivisions.
There are signs of forest clearance by burning from this site.
Extensive and continuing forest clearance is responsible for its current fragmented distribution.
Rather more important in the long term were the changes which could be initiated by such widespread forest clearance.
The main threat to these primates is the destruction of their habitat due to forest clearance.