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From 1977 to 1980, public concern about the endangered status of lion-tailed macaque became the focal point of Save Silent Valley, India's fiercest environmental debate of the decade. From 1993 to 1996, 14 troops were observed in Silent Valley National Park , Kerala, one of the most undisturbed viable habitats left for them. [ 11 ]
IUCN status and estimated population Toque macaque. M. sinica (Linnaeus, 1771) Three subspecies. ... Lion-tailed macaque. M. silenus (Linnaeus, 1758) Southwestern India:
Macaca silenus Lion-tailed macaque Macaca silenus: 2010 India fewer than 4,000 Endangered [72] ... IUCN status Threats Leontopithecus rosalia Golden lion tamarin
The IUCN’s classification surprised some because the long-tailed macaque doesn’t seem endangered. It’s a monkey that adapts well, thrives in proximity to humans, and tends to make its ...
These long-tailed macaques, some as young as eight months old, were horrifically torn from the wild and subjected to months of brutal training designed to force them to dance for money in front of ...
India's Red List of 2018 was released at the Rio+20 Earth Summit. [1] [2] Since then, new animals have been added yearly.While previously this list contained 132 species of plants and animals in 2018, as of the 2023-1 update from the IUCN Red List, over 950 species of animals (and over 600 species of plants) are listed as critically endangered, endangered, or vulnerable.
The IUCN also lists 86 mammalian subspecies as endangered. Of the subpopulations of mammals evaluated by the IUCN, five species subpopulations have been assessed as endangered. For a species to be considered endangered by the IUCN it must meet certain quantitative criteria which are designed to classify taxa facing "a very high risk of extinction".
The same team of researchers announced in 2018 that they had made two identical cloned cynomolgus monkeys (a type of macaque), which are still alive today.