{"id":67410,"date":"2024-10-23T18:56:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T09:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/video\/2024\/oct\/23\/guardians-of-the-gibbons-can-india-save-its-only-ape-species-from-extinction"},"modified":"2024-10-23T18:56:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T09:56:41","slug":"guardians-of-the-gibbons-can-india-save-its-only-ape-species-from-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67410","title":{"rendered":"Guardians of the Gibbons: can India save its only ape species from extinction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For over a century the villagers of Barekuri, north-east India\u2019s biodiversity hotspot, have coexisted with the country\u2019s only ape species, the hoolock gibbon. But this harmony stands in fragile ecological balance. Mohit Chutia, a 55-year-old farmer and father, has been taking care of one gibbon family while raising his own. When researcher Ishika Ramakrishna arrives to study human-gibbon interactions, she joins forces with Mohit and the villagers to tackle the gibbons&#8217; urgent population decline, endangered by habitat loss, deforestation and industrial catastrophe<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/video\/2024\/oct\/23\/guardians-of-the-gibbons-can-india-save-its-only-ape-species-from-extinction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For over a century the villagers of Barekuri, north-east India\u2019s biodiversity hotspot, have coexisted with the country\u2019s only ape species, the hoolock gibbon. But this harmony stands in fragile ecological balance. Mohit Chutia, a 55-year-old farmer and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4454,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2386,586,265,973,2331,456,821,1089,464,65,62,3021,1945,3104,299,61,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-behaviour","category-animal-welfare","category-animals","category-biodiversity","category-climate-crisis","category-conservation","category-deforestation","category-endangered-habitats","category-endangered-species","category-environment","category-india","category-iucn-red-list-of-endangered-species","category-oil-and-gas-companies","category-primatology","category-science","category-south-and-central-asia","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67411,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67410\/revisions\/67411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}