From @mongabay: There’s still room – and time – to save hoolock gibbons, but only just: their habitat has declined in the past few decades, but enough suitable patches exist today to guarantee the long-term survival of the genus if properly conserved.

A type of small ape endemic to South and Southeast Asia, hoolock gibbons spend most of their lives up in trees, rarely touching the forest floor. This makes large stretches of uninterrupted forest crucial to their survival — yet such suitable patches are getting scarcer.

Read about them and the new study that lines out how this cool species can be conserved at mongabay.com.

Photo credit: Female hoolock gibbon by Programme HURO via Wikimedia Commons.

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