On the continent of human origin, in the "paradise of lemurs", our primate relatives face survival dilemmas, forests destroyed by slash-and-burn agriculture, poachers are rampant, natural resources are exploited recklessly... But it also reflects that human society here also faces existential dilemmas: poverty, hunger, war, and political instability. But even in this dilemma, more attention and understanding of the world will be conducive to finding a way to survive for the people and wildlife here.
Eastern Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla beringei gra): The fragile King Kong in the midst of war
Let's start with the world's largest primate: it has a burly figure, an adult male has a silver-gray back, and it is the familiar image of King Kong. Unfortunately, this King Kong, who lives in the lowland rainforest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, although the largest gorilla, is a hero. Since 1990, the habitat suitable for it has plummeted, and many populations have disappeared in the wild, leaving only 14 scattered populations, with an estimated 2,000-10,000 extant populations.
Eastern red colobus monkey (nominate subspecies) (Piliocolobus pennantii pennantii): sad game
There are four subspecies of the Oriental red colobus monkey, of which the nominate subspecies live only on Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea. No more than 5,000 eastern red colobus monkeys are concentrated in the forests of the southwest of the island. However, since the 1980s, they have been hunted in large numbers as extravagant game, and the degradation of habitats has made their future very dangerous. They are still not well protected.
Piliocolobus rufomit (Tana River Red Colobus Rufomit): Victim of a dam
Like many species of the genus Red Colobus monkey, it lives on the Tana River in Kenya. They live in fragmented forests along the banks of rivers, some of which are less than 1 hectare and up to less than 500 hectares. The harvesting of banyan trees by humans has greatly reduced the fruit on which the red colobus monkey depends. The dams upstream have changed the vegetation of their habitat, and the survival of the only remaining 1100-1300 Tana River red colobus monkeys is worrying.
Cercopithecus rol: The threat of shotguns and chainsaws
The forests of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana are home to the broad-browed long-tailed monkey. This species was once thought to be the Diana long-tailed monkey (C. Diana) is a subspecies of white-bearded fluttering animals that are almost exclusively active in trees, and they depend on the canopy of large trees for survival. The value of its skin and flesh has attracted hunters, and the forests on which it depends have been cut down, so the population of this species has dropped by 80% in the past 30 years, and many populations have disappeared locally, and the situation is not getting better.
Galagoides rondoens: I want to have a little home
This little guy, who weighs only 60 grams, belongs to the primate proto-monkey suborder and is not far related to lemurs, lorises and other cute creatures. Their large eyes and ears are used to move around at night, eating insects and fruits, while during the day they will build a nest in a tree to sleep. The home of the velvet monkey is not much of a place, just some xerotic forests on the coast of Tanzania, but human reclamation activities, whether for farming or obtaining wood and charcoal, have made this small home fragmented and narrow