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• Lion-tailed macaque taken off ‘top 25’ endangered list

  State governments have acted positively to protect it, say agencies The lion-tailed macaque, one of India’s endangered mascot species, is no longer on ‘The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates’ list, after the international body compiling it determined that the State governments had acted positively to protect it. The list of 25 primates is put out by a group of specialist agencies — the Primate Specialist Group of the IUCN/Species Survival Commission; the International Primatological Society; Conservation International (CI); and the Bristol Conservation and Science Foundation.

  • 16/10/2012

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • India
    • Endangered Species
    • Convention On Biological Diversity (CBD)
    • Langurs
    • Sri Lanka
    • Western Ghats
    • NGO
    • Wildlife
    • Andhra Pradesh

• 25 primates on endangered species list

  Twenty-five primates have been identified as the world’s most endangered species. In the seventh biennial listing, the International Primatological Society and Conservation International and others

  • 15/10/2012

  • Business Line (New Delhi)
  • • Wildlife
    • Endangered Species
    • Langurs

• Recruiting a Village to save an endangered population

  CHONGZUO, China: Long ago, in the poverty-stricken hills of southern China, a village banished its children to the forest to feed on wild fruits and leaves. Years later, when food supplies improved, the children's parents returned to the woods to reclaim their young.

  • 04/10/2008

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Endangered Species
    • Langurs
    • China

• Monkey muddle

  ONE of the rarest of the species, the golden langur is facing extinction. Increasing encroachment on their habitat and smuggling have led to a sharp decline in the number of these dazzling

  • 14/12/1996

  • Down To Earth
  • • Endangered Species
    • Langurs
    • India