Yellow-Tailed Woolly Monkey ( Lagothrix flavicauda ): Conservation Status, Anthropogenic Threats, and Conservation Initiatives

摘要: This chapter examines threats and conservation opportunities for the Critically Endangered yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Lagothrix flavicauda), a species endemic to northeastern Peru. Inherent traits make this susceptible extinction from identified here as habitat loss, hunting, selective logging, road construction, extractive industry, climate change, all of which are increasing. Using current range estimates, available habitat, published density we present first estimate L. flavicauda population size. We between 88,622 10,564 individuals, represents reduction 46 93 % estimated original since 1981. These numbers represent maximum estimates they only consider availability, disregarding hunting pressure. It is clear that both species’ size decreasing. State efforts do not fully mitigate species, but land protection by private actors, especially rural communities through creation protected areas landscape-level conservation, offers an innovative increasingly popular alternative.