20 September 2024
Climate Connections: Monkey Business - How Singapore's "Jane Goodall" is pushing for langur conservation in SEA through the first genus action plan
Despite being highly threatened, only a few langur populations have been studied in detail, owing to their elusive nature, arboreality and the challenging terrains where they inhabit. As a result, conservation of these species has been challenging.
Over 85 per cent of Asian langurs are threatened with extinction, making them one of the continent’s most threatened primate groups.
A new landmark Asian langurs (Presbytis) Conservation Action Plan 2024-2034, combining the efforts of international primate experts and conservationists, has just been launched, in a bid to galvanise conservation for Asian langurs across Southeast Asia.
On this episode of Climate Connections, lead of the initiative, Dr Andie Ang, Head, Primate Conservation & Singapore Programmes, Mandai Nature shares her first-hand insights on putting together the conservation plan and her experience out in the field.
Feature produced and edited by: Yeo Kai Ting (ykaiting@sph.com.sg)
Voiced by: Emaad Akhtar
Photo credits: Andie Ang
Music/Sound credits: pixabay & its talented community of contributors, Ecology Asia| Sophia Sak Baker

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27 April 2023
Saturday Mornings: Dr. Andie Ang on this weeks' historic sighting of a Raffles' banded langur in Singapore
Saturday Mornings host Glenn van Zutphen and co-host, award-winning author Neil Humphreys talk with Dr. Andie Ang, Head of Primate Conservation & Singapore Programmes at Mandai Nature about the first-ever sighting of a Raffles’ banded langur on Eco-Link@BKE, . She says it's a positive sign that the monkey – which is now mainly found in the Central Catchment Nature Reserve might be starting to venture into other forested areas to find food and mates.

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30 September 2023
Weekends: The Saturday Sit-Down with Dr. Andie Ang on the importance of Singapore's primates (Full)
Saturday Mornings host Glenn van Zutphen and co-host, award-winning author Neil Humphreys - in their first Saturday Sit-Down conversation series - talk with Dr. Andie Ang, Head of Primate Conservation & Singapore Programmes at Mandai Nature about the importance of the recent, first-ever sighting in Singapore of a Silvered Langur monkey and what these animals mean to the local ecosystem.

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