By Victoria GillScience reporter, BBC News
7 November 2017
Conservationists are celebrating the arrival
of a baby Javan gibbon - the first of this species to be born in the wild to
parents that were rescued from the pet trade.
Conservation International says the birth is
a boost for the future of the apes on the Indonesian island of Java.
But illegal trade is still a threat, and is
increasingly moving online.
A UK-based
investigation this year revealed that the law protecting these ape species was being
openly "flouted".
Researchers who carried out the
investigation, who are based at Oxford Brookes University, also showed BBC News
videos of protected species being advertised by pet traders on social media
platforms.
Learning to be wild
The birth of the wild-born Javan gibbon - in
a protected forest in West Java - is a breakthrough for a project that has now
released 17 of the apes into the area.
Conservation International (CI) and the Javan
Gibbon Foundation have rehabilitated the animals, and rangers now patrol the
site at Mount Malabar daily, monitoring the animals and checking for any
poaching activity.
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