videos for cats The Last Hope-Rescuing stranded Gibbons in northeast India

About 50 families of threatened Eastern Hoolock Gibbons are stranded in clusters of a few trees due to destruction of their habitat for permanent agriculture in a remote northeast Indian village. A unique rescue operation has been initiated to save these gibbons and move them to a safer and a more secure habitat. Till date four families have been rescued and successfully rehabilitated in Mehao Wildlife Sanctuary.

Here's a detailed writeup by IFAW-WTI primatologist Dr Kuladeep Roy, who spent time studying the behavior and habits of the gibbons to identify the first family for the move.He focuses on distribution, status and conservation threats of eastern Hoolock gibbon in North East India:


Out of seventeen species of four genera, Hoolock Gibbon under the genus Hoolock is represented by two species, Western Hoolock gibbon (Hoolock hoolock) and Eastern Hoolock gibbon (Hoolock leuconedys). Both the species are found in India with their restricted distribution up to the south of Dibang-Brahmaputra River system in North East India. However, western Hoolock gibbons are also found in Bangladesh and Myanmar and eastern Hoolock gibbon are found in Myanmar and China outside of India (Anderson 1878; Gittins 1980; Gittins and Akonda 1982; Khan 1984, 1985; Tickell 1864; Groves 1967, 1971, 1972, Chetry, 2010). Western Hoolock gibbon has wider range of distribution covering seven states in north-east India; Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Tri¬pura, Manipur, Mizoram, and Nagaland (Mukherjee et al. 1982, 1988, 1991--1992; Choudhury 1991, 2006, 2009; Das et al. 2003; Gupta and Sharma 2005; Chetry et al. 2007; Kakati et al. 2009).
The eastern Hoolock gibbon are reported to be distributed very limited habitat in the world, from the east of Chindwin River to Salween river in Myanmar and south-western Yunnan province in China (Groves, 1971, Das et al. 2006). The distribution of eastern Hoolock gibbon in India was reported recently. According to Das et al. (2006), this sub-species is distributed between the River Lohit in the north and the high mountains of the Dafa Bum in the south, in the state of Arunachal Pradesh. However, the species was also reported recently from the Sadiya district of Assam (Chetry, et al. 2010) and Meaho Wildlife Sanctuary, Lower Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh (Chetry et al. 2007, 2008; Chetry 2009).
Eastern Hoolock gibbon has been reported from many forest divisions like Mehao and Namsai in Arunachal Pradesh (Das et al. 2006) covering more than 2630 km2 area. In a recent study, almost 157 groups of eastern Hoolock gibbon, out of which 28 families of 88 individuals were directed sighted, were reported from Mehao wildlife sanctuary at Lower Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh (Chetry et al. 2010). However, many families were also found outside of the protected area like Dello village, Ingino, Abango and many small villages present at the boundary. New distribution of eastern Hoolock gibbon of more than ten families (average group size 2.4) has been also reported from Korunu circle area including Dello village area, Lower Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh (Chetry et al. 2006).
The major conservation threats of eastern Hoolock gibbon are more or less similar in all places of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam. Habitat degradation was the mostly observed reason for their conservation threats. Out of the habitat degradation, habitat fragmentation by encroachment, habitat destruction by increasing cultivation and settlement, limitation of the resources by removing many fruiting trees are the continuous process. Besides, change of land use pattern like jhum cultivation (slash and burn practice), alternation of cultivation and maximum exploitation of habitats to decrease the habitat quality are also associated. Further, developmental procedure at those areas which are nearer to the urban sides like roads building, electric wires expanding, communication are also found as some of their threats to some extend. However, in the remote areas those are not such pre-dominant. Unlike the other parts of Arunachal Pradesh, in Mehao and nearby areas Hoolock gibbon are not hunted for meat. Thus, Hoolock is protected as a major help of conservation by the traditional beliefs Digaru Mishmi, Idu Mishmi and Khamti tribes who take hoolock gibbon as their local taboo (Das et al. 2006).




This clip documents the process of the move of these first few families.
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