The IUCN has announced that it is helping critically endangered gibbons.
It also plans to help save endangered gibbons.
The IUCN is a conservation group that focuses on things like assessing species - such as species of plants and animals - this is in order to monitor things like a species population, their distribution, the threats that the species face, and more. By doing this, we can gain a good and better understanding of how species like plants and animals are doing in the wild.
We can also understand what challenges certain species face and, by understanding the threats they face, it can help us save the species.
A new conservation action is being established by the IUCN to help critically endangered gibbons. This conservation action is being created to help four different species of critically endangered gibbons.
What Are The Four Critically Endangered/Endangered Species?
The four critically endangered/endangered gibbons are all from Asia.
These four critically endangered/endangered species of gibbons are 1) the Vit gibbon, 2) North white-cheeked gibbon, 3) Northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbon, and 4) the silvery gibbon. These gibbons can be found in Asia in places like Indonesia.
These gibbon species face several threats in the wild.
The threats that these gibbons face in the wild are responsible for a decline in gibbons in the wild. For example, there are a few threats that silvery gibbons are facing, these threats include being hunted, deforestation, and the illegal wildlife trade. Threats like these threaten silvery gibbons with extinction.
What Does The IUCN Plan To Do?
The IUCN's new conservation action for these four critically endangered gibbons aims to help save these critically endangered and endangered animals.
There will be a three-year project to help save these gibbons.
This three-year project will help gibbons in a few ways. They will help gibbon habitats in the wild and they will try and help humans and gibbons exist alongside one another, these are just some of the aims that the IUCN's conservation action to help critically endangered and endangered gibbons aim to achieve.
If you want to read what else they aim to achieve, then go - here!
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