Status
Habitat
Range
Group
Fewer than four thousand, in forest cut into pieces by tea and coffee.
It lives in the upper canopy of Western Ghats rainforest and rarely comes down. Its diet leans on the fruit of specific native trees, which means a plantation is not habitat — it is a gap. The population survives as roughly fifty subpopulations, many of them too small to be viable on their own.
Fragmentation here is old and administrative: forest was converted to tea, coffee, cardamom and teak over a century, leaving remnants separated by estates and roads. Canopy bridges over highways and the protection of connecting corridors have become the practical conservation work, because the animals will not cross open ground.
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