Arunachal Pradesh Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (PCCF) Dr Shashi Kumar laucnhed a community and school-based education programme on conservation of the endangered Eastern Hoolock Gibbon. The program has been launched in Arunachal’s Lower Dibang Valley district and at Sadiya sub-division under Assam’s Tinsukia district. It would be implemented by ENVIRON, North-East based NGO.
Supported by US Fish and Wildlife Service, the project would be implemented in partnership with the State’s Environment and Forest department with Aitijya (The Heritage) as partner. Rajiv Gandhi University’s Zoology department and G. B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development (GBPIHED), NE Unit, would provide all technical support.
Eastern Hoolock Gibbon
- The eastern hoolock gibbon is a primate from the gibbon family, Hylobatidae.
- The species is found in extreme eastern corner of Assam and parts of Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar east of the Chindwin River, and in south west Yunnan of China.
- Like all apes, the Hoolock Gibbons are distinctive in the great development of the arms, which are much longer than the legs.
- Poaching is one big threat to these apes as their body parts are used as traditional medicines.
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