A new report titled “Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates 2023–2025” has identified the 25 most endangered primate species across Africa, Asia, Madagascar, and South America. The research, conducted between 2023 and 2025, calls for urgent global conservation measures. This list of the world’s 25 most endangered primates has been compiled by the Primate Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission and the International Primatological Society, in collaboration with Re:wild. The most endangered ape species on the list is the Tapanuli orangutan on Sumatra, with only around 800 individuals remaining – having only been discovered in 2017. The report aims to help save these animals by encouraging governments and people to protect their habitats and stop hunting them. For example, after a primate was added to the list, Brazil created a special protected area for it. Scientists hope this list will make more people care about these animals, help raise money for their protection, and inspire students to study and save them. Protecting primates also means protecting the forests where many other animals live.
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Why Are These Primates Endangered?
- Habitat destruction
- Hunting
- Climate change
- Illegal wildlife trade
What About India?
Two monkeys from India and Bangladesh were considered for the list but did not make it:
- Phayre’s Langur: A leaf-eating monkey that is endangered because its forest home is shrinking, and it’s hunted and traded illegally.
- Western Hoolock Gibbon: An ape found in northeast India and Bangladesh, also endangered because its home is being destroyed and it’s hunted.
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The species has been listed as ‘Endangered’ for two decades on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species.
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