Electrification Threatens Assam’s Hoolock Gibbons: A Tragic Incident
Less than two years after the National Board of Wildlife (NBWL) approved electrification of a railway line in Assam passing through India’s lone ape habitat, Hollongapar Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary (HGWS) in Jorhat, a male gibbon was found electrocuted to death on February 8 morning by local forest staff. Primatologists, local residents and wildlife biologists had…