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Kenya's New Primate Reserve

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Katherine Homewood
Affiliation:
Wellcome Institute of Comparative Physiology, Zoological Society of London, London.
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Abstract

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Two endangered monkeys, the Tana crested mangabey and the Tana red colobus, survive only in a small area of the Tana river in northern Kenya. The Government has now created a small reserve to protect them on land given up voluntarily by the local people. But the threat of a large irrigation project upstream could still jeopardise their survival. Mr Mkunga is Warden of the new reserve.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1977

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