GUWAHATI Primatologists have suggested rerouting a 1.65-km-long railway track that has divided an eastern Assam sanctuary dedicated to the western hoolock gibbon (Hoolock hoolock) into two unequal parts.
Their report in Science, a journal, follows that of the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) on designing an artificial canopy bridge to facilitate the movement of the hoolock gibbons across the broad-gauge line within the Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary. The track is yet to be electrified.
The authors of the study are Rohit Ravindra Samita Jha and Gopi Govindan Veeraswami of the Dehradun-based WII, Dilip Chetry of Assam-based biodiversity conservation group Aaranyak, and Nandha Kumar of Assam’s Department of Environment and Forests.
