TY - JOUR

T1 - Removal from the wild endangers the once widespread long-tailed macaque

AU - Gamalo, Lief E.

AU - Ilham, Kurnia

AU - Jones-Engel, Lisa

AU - Gill, Mike

AU - Sweet, Rebecca

AU - Aldrich, Brooke

AU - Phiapalath, Phaivanh

AU - Van Bang, Tran

AU - Ahmed, Tanvir

AU - Kite, Sarah

AU - Paramasivam, Sharmini

AU - Seiha, Hun

AU - Zainol, Muhammad Z.

AU - Nielsen, Daniel R.K.

AU - Ruppert, Nadine

AU - Fuentes, Agustin

AU - Hansen, Malene F.

N1 - Funding Information: We are grateful to the supporters of the Long‐Tailed Macaque Project; QATO, International Primate Protection League, Alameda Wildlife Conservation Park and Animal Protection Denmark. Carlsberg Foundation (Grant No: CF21‐0473), Re:wild, National Research Council of the Philippines‐Department of Science and Technology (NRCP‐DOST) and Isabela Foundation also supported individual projects and researchers for which we cannot thank them enough. We are furthermore grateful to everyone who supports our local projects with funding and guidance. None of our work would be possible without the participation of national teams, and support and encouragement of international and national officials and local communities across habitat countries and the rest of the world. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Authors. American Journal of Primatology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.

PY - 2024

Y1 - 2024

N2 - In 2022, long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis), a once ubiquitous primate species, was elevated to Endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. In 2023, recognizing that the long-tailed macaque is threatened by multiple factors: (1) declining native habitats across Southeast Asia; (2) overutilization for scientific, commercial, and recreational purposes; (3) inadequate regulatory mechanisms; and (4) culling due to human–macaque conflicts, a petition for rulemaking was submitted to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to add the species to the US Endangered Species Act, the nation's most effective law to protect at risk species. The long-tailed macaque remains unprotected across much of its geographical range despite the documented continual decline of the species and related sub-species and the recent IUCN reassessment. This commentary presents a review of the factors that have contributed to the dramatic decline of this keystone species and makes a case for raising the level of protection they receive.

AB - In 2022, long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis), a once ubiquitous primate species, was elevated to Endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. In 2023, recognizing that the long-tailed macaque is threatened by multiple factors: (1) declining native habitats across Southeast Asia; (2) overutilization for scientific, commercial, and recreational purposes; (3) inadequate regulatory mechanisms; and (4) culling due to human–macaque conflicts, a petition for rulemaking was submitted to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to add the species to the US Endangered Species Act, the nation's most effective law to protect at risk species. The long-tailed macaque remains unprotected across much of its geographical range despite the documented continual decline of the species and related sub-species and the recent IUCN reassessment. This commentary presents a review of the factors that have contributed to the dramatic decline of this keystone species and makes a case for raising the level of protection they receive.

KW - Afro-Eurasian primate

KW - biomedical trade

KW - conservation

KW - synanthropy

U2 - 10.1002/ajp.23547

DO - 10.1002/ajp.23547

M3 - Comment/debate

C2 - 37667504

AN - SCOPUS:85169839085

VL - 86

JO - American Journal of Primatology

JF - American Journal of Primatology

SN - 0275-2565

IS - 3

M1 - e23547

ER -