Articles for tag: biodiversity, Endangered primates, Forest corridors, Javan gibbon, Sustainable agroforestry, wildlife conservation

Javan Gibbon

Forest Highways for Gibbons: How Tree Corridors Are Saving an Endangered Primate

Jan Otte

Deep in the misty mountains of Java, Indonesia, a peaceful revolution is under way one that might decide the fate of the Javan gibbon (Hylobates moloch), a primate whose eerie songs once filled the forests but now fade into silence. With just 4,000 wild acrobatic apes left, victims of unrelenting deforestation and human development are ...