Longer road to the wild for ‘singing apes’ family


KOTA KINABALU: Newborn gibbon Nabalu and his parents may take more than six months to be rehabilitated before their release into the wild, says the Gibbon Conservation Society (GCS).

Its operations director Ana Jonessy said that while six months is the appropriate age for the release of a family unit, this will only proceed once the seven criteria outlined in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) are met.

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