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For two of the world’s most at-risk primates, threats abound and the future looks grim

4mon 27d ago by slrpnk.net/u/wolfyvegan in conservation@slrpnk.net from news.mongabay.com
  • Preuss’s red colobus is found in two populations in West Africa — roughly 3,000 individuals in the Korup–Cross River forest block and none confirmed in the Yabassi Key Biodiversity Area for more than a decade — and faces intense pressure from hunting and habitat loss.
  • The Bangka slow loris, restricted to Bangka Island in Indonesia has not been systematically studied for decades and has suffered extensive habitat loss from mining and forest conversion.
  • Proper field studies and conservation approaches used for other slow loris species could provide a road map for assessing and protecting the Bangka slow loris.
  • For Preuss’s red colobus, a regional action plan is advancing in Nigeria, where monitoring and community outreach are underway, but implementation in Cameroon has been hampered by ongoing civil unrest around Korup National Park.

This pisses me off so much. And you cant transplant most endangered species to a safer habitat without wreaking further ecological havoc.