News Headline
Greater Mekong primates struggle to cling on amid persistent threats: Report
Source
Mongabay (India)
Publication Date
2022-01-17
When scientists described the Popa langur (Trachypithecus popa) as a species new to science in 2020, it was already staring extinction in the face. Fewer than 260 of the fluffy gray leaf-eating monkeys are estimated to remain across four precariously isolated patches of forest on Myanmar’s central plains, where their survival is threatened by habitat loss and hunting.