Call for Gibbon Conservation Plan in Northeast India

Speedy Summary

• Primatologist Dilip chetry advocated for a “Project gibbon” at the 30th Congress of the International Primatological Society (IPS) in Madagascar.
• Western hoolock gibbon (Hoolock hoolock), India’s onyl ape species, is endangered due to habitat loss from encroachment, infrastructure growth, hunting, and illegal wildlife trade.
• Found primarily in northeastern India across seven States-Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, mizoram, Nagaland, and Tripura-and parts of Myanmar and Bangladesh.
• Conservation proposals include restoring degraded habitats, creating ecological corridors, conducting scientific research, training forest staff capacity-building efforts with local communities.
• Promotion as a flagship species was suggested to garner public and policy support for biodiverse conservation efforts within the ecosystem restoration urgently contextual drives,,@source=@text