Usher in awareness on Malaysian primates this Monkey year


KOTA KINABALU: As Malaysians usher in the Lunar Year of the Monkey, conservationists are hoping that this will lead to more awareness on the need to protect the primates which are fast diminishing in Sabah’s forests.

Apart from the better known and endangered orangutan and proboscis monkeys, at least eight other species of primates in the state need to be conserved.

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