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Environment NEWS: SPECIES: Gee's Golden Langur or Golden Leaf Monkey.THEME: Rare, Endangered and Lesser know. A portrait of one of the gorgeous looking primates on Earth.The Golden Langur is an old World monkey found in all region of Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Council of Western Assam (India) - Sakrasila Wildlife Sanctuary (Kokrajhar) , Ripu Chirang wildlife sanctuary, Manas national park, Kakoijan forest, India and in the neighboring foothills of the black mountain of Bhutan.
Though the Golden Langur had been noticed by one Captain Pemberton in 1839, no effects were made by wildlife experts to know more about the “white monkey" which appeared to Captain Pemberton as "a new variety". Again 1907, E O. Sheb bears, a forester reported having seen a similar species but nothing happened until the 1940s when a naturalist and tea planter of Assam, Edward Pritchard Gee, after repeatedly hearing accounts of the cream-coloured primates, mounted an expedition in 1953 in the areas along the Sonkosh river, Kokrajhar. Close to Assam's border with the kingdom of Bhutan.
The Indian population had been greatly depleted due to a fragmented range. The Golden Langur has been listed as "Endangered" on the IUCN Red list of the Threatens Species.
Golden Langur world's 25th most endangered primates. This was declared in a session under the chairmanship of Dr. Russell A. Mittermeier (Chair, International Union for Conservation of Natures Species Survival Commission Primate Specialist Group (IUCN. SSC, PSG) in the joint Congress of International Primatological Society and American Society which was held in Chicago, the USA from 21st to 27th August 2016.
Words by Hariswar Brahma
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