The Gibbon is in rapid decline and is expected to go extinct.
So say primate experts who have made a call to action to save the crested gibbons of southeast Asia, which are the most vulnerable group of all apes.
For example, just 20 Hainan gibbons survive on one island in China, making it the world's rarest ape species.
Experts highlighted the status of the apes at the XXII Congress of the International Primatological Society.
"The crested gibbons are the most threatened group of primates and all species require urgent attention to save them from extinction", says Dr Thomas Geissmann, a world-renowned gibbon expert based at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, and advisor on the apes to conservation organisation Fauna and Flora International (FFI)
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1 comments:
Its bad that evil, criminal, and violent primates like negros and muslims get jobs, welfare and protection they don't deserve. And these harmless primates get threatened. Since 2008, I have wanted to save endangered species but couldn't due to not getting business opportunities in the desert I am in. I won't hesitate to spend on these species if I can earn something substantial in the US. So I am going there.
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