Kenya: Loss of Rare Monkeys Deals Death Blow to Once-Revered Reserve

7 January 2021

Human activities at the Mchelelo Primate Reserve in Tana River County have driven two rare monkey species to the brink of extinction.

The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) is now struggling to save the few remaining Tana River red colobus and Tana River crested mangabey monkeys, which are only extant on the Kenyan coast and nowhere else in the world.

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