Five of the six nonhuman primate species found in the Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands have traditionally been hunted; traditional beliefs forbid killing the sixth, Kloss’s gibbon, or bilou.
With widespread deforestation and the erosion of traditional practices that governed hunting behavior, all of the islands’ primates are now endangered or critically endangered.
By Ana Norman Bermúdez
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/05/indigenous-conservationists-lead-the-fight-to-save-mentawais-endangered-primates/
Mongabay Environmental News · Indigenous conservationists lead the fight to save Mentawai’s endangered primatesSOUTH SIBERUT, Indonesia — As night falls over the Siberut jungle, a fire crackles inside the Tateburuk clan’s wooden home, or uma. The walls are covered in traditional Mentawai carvings of forest creatures — birds, lizards, monkeys and gibbons — a reminder that the boundary between the outside world and the home is thin. Damianus […]
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