Biodiversité


Entrées pour date "janvier 2023"

Projet de sauvegarde du Colobe à pattes blanches (Colobus vellerosus).

Background

The ursine colobus (Colobus vellerosus, white-thighed colobus, Geoffroy's black-and-white colobus) is a primate listed as Critically Endangered on The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species since 2020 (last update). According to IUCN (2020), the number of mature individuals is 975 with a decreasing population. Benin is one of the 4 countries where a certain occurrence can still be confirmed; They have several functions in ecology including helping to disperse …