The study conducted in late 2022 has found that the LTMs are thriving despite the odds in their habitat. If connected, the rainforest would be fragmented and the corridor would be broken,” said Honnavali N Kumara, Principal Scientist - Conservation Biology, SACON. There is a bigger role to ensure that the Myristica swamps, which is the primary source of food …
Lion-tailed macaque, a primate endemic to small and severely fragmented rainforests of the Western Ghats in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, continues to be in the ‘endangered’ category in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The latest conservation status of the primate was updated in the IUCN database recently based on technical reports over the years from a group …
