The population of rare east African kipunji monkeys, recently thought to be on the brink of extinction, has increased by 65 percent in little over a decade thanks to efforts to protect the forests where these creatures live, in Tanzania’s southern highlands.
When the kipunji – a medium-sized monkey with a dark face, long greyish-brown fur and a broad tuft of hair that stands erect on the top of its head – was first discovered in 2003, it was the first new monkey described in Africa in more than 80 years.
