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Updated On: 07 April, 2024 06:39 AM IST | Mumbai | Arpika Bhosale
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A 2011 photo of a three-week old Colobus monkey at Melbourne Zoo with its mother. Black and White Colobus monkeys are native to Tanzania, Kenya, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, and have seen their numbers drop historically, first for fur trade during colonial times, and now due to loss of habitat and the bushmeat trade. Pic/Getty Images
A glimpse of a bushy white tail and the loud but lyrical rattle echoing through the night forest of Usambara usually meant that the Colubus monkey was nearby. Usambara is home to hills on the 100 km majestic Eastern Arc Mountains that run from eastern Tanzania to Kenya and are the natural habitat of the black and white primate species.
Dating back to a hundred million years, the Eastern Arc Mountains support a habitat that’s fast vanishing, making the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), considered a global authority on the status of the natural world, classify the species as vulnerable. Living in groups of eight to 12 across east and central Africa, their exact numbers are currently not known although environmentalists are keenly aware of the crisis they have faced for 30 years.
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