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Map of primates hotspots and WWF priority landscapes in the Greater Mekong region
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A WWF report, highlighting the diversity of lorises, macaques, langurs and gibbons that occur in the five Greater Mekong (GM) countries - Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam. The report compiles the latest information on taxonomy, Red List status, threats and conservation efforts for the 44 species of primates in the GM (including 19 sp...
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... (Freund et al. 2021). In Myanmar, recorded an infant in Tanintharyi Nature Reserve in 2013 (Freund et al. 2021). ...
... (Freund et al. 2021). In Myanmar, recorded an infant in Tanintharyi Nature Reserve in 2013 (Freund et al. 2021). Remarks: T. germaini is commonly listed in Myanmar; however, this species is not present and its putative occurrence in Myanmar is based on the incorrect assignment of Pithecus pyrrhus atrior as a synonym of T. germaini instead of T. barbei (Roos et al. 2020). ...
When the book Wild mammals of Myanmar (Tun Yin 1993) was published, a total of 252 mammal species were reported. Since that publication, numerous new species have been described, taxonomic revisions published, and additional distribution records produced that have expanded Myanmar’s mammals considerably. Therefore, we aimed to provide an updated checklist of the mammals of Myanmar, which includes the scientific and common names, global and Myanmar distributions, remarks on taxonomy, and conservation information including the IUCN Red List status and legal protection status under The Conservation of Biodiversity and Protected Areas Law 2018 of Myanmar. Our new checklist includes 365 (33 marine and 332 terrestrial) mammal species belonging to 13 orders and 49 families. We also confirmed that Myanmar is home to at least nine endemic mammal species. Our results highlight the areas that require further exploration to gain a more comprehensive understanding of Myanmar’s diverse fauna.
... WWF-Myanmar, together with the Karen Wildlife Conservation Initiative and Wildlife Asia project, have worked together to insulate power lines to protect lar gibbons in the forests of southern Myanmar where electricity lines installed for a new grid system expose gibbons to risk of electrocution (Freund et al., 2021). Recently, NCS together with UC Davis and the IUCN SSA initiated the Skywalker Gibbon Conservation Project to identify species distribution and threats in eastern Myanmar. ...
