Building bridges for India’s wildlife

Building bridges for India’s wildlife SPEAKING OF SCIENCE center A male western Hoolock gibbon hangs from the lower branches of a tree in the Hoollangapar Gibbon Sanctuary. Krunal Desai (CC BY-SA) Krunal Desai (CC BY-SA) https://th-i.thgim.com/public/sci-tech/science/l4slaj/article71582775.ece/alternates/FREE_1200/Western_hoolock_gibbon_-_Hollongapar_Gibbon_Sanctuary_2023-01-12_02.jpg This country has an animal overpass that is nearly a kilometre long and spans a highway, a rail yard, and a golf course. Our increasingly busy highways surely need such facilitators for our wildlife The Hoolock gibbon is India’s only ape other than us humans. Found in Northeast India, mostly to the south of the Brahmaputra river, the western and eastern hoolock gibbon populations have declined by 90% in the last few decades. The main reason for this has been the fragmentation of their habitats — the range that individuals can freely roam over — by roads and railway lines.