India-Bangladesh join hands to protect spectacled langur

BILBARI (India-Bangladesh border): India and Bangladesh have decided to take concerted conservation efforts to protect the rare spectacled langur along with other primates found in Patharia Hills Reserve Forest on either side of the fenced border along Assam’s Karimganjdistrict. 

A decision to this effect was taken at the last meeting of deputy commissioners of Karimganj and Cachar districts along with their counterparts from Sylhet and Moulvibazaar districts of Bangladesh, Karimganj deputy commissioner Sanjiv Gohain Boruah said, reports économie time.hits 

The reserve forest, home to the endangered spectacled langur, Hoolock gibbon and golden langur, is spread across both the countries with the border fencing passing through it and loss of habitat posing a major threat to the wildlife present in the forest, he pointed out. 

Spectacled monkeys have been sighted here in large number, though a proper survey is yet to be conducted while several colonies of the Hoolock gibbon and some golden langur have also been sighted within the forest.