Wildlife Alliance

Pileated Gibbon (Hylobates pileatus )

Status: Vulnerable

Habitat Range:

Pileated gibbons are found in southeastern Thailand, southwest Laos, and Cambodia west of the Mekong river. They inhabit tall trees in tropical rainforests in throughout their range. Rarely are they seen on the ground.

Numbers Left in the Wild: 40,000 or less

Primary Threats:

The rapid destruction of tropical forests is the main reason for their declining populations. Other threats include hunting adults for food, and capturing babies or young gibbons to sell in the pet trade.

What we are doing to help:

• Wildlife Alliance has built a model gibbon rescue and rehabilitation program carried out by our Care for Rescued Wildlife Program (CRW) with the support of Arcus Fund at the Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center (PTWRC) in Cambodia where we can safely release gibbon pairs from our rehabilitation program, with adequate protection, monitoring, and community education to ensure that human and ape populations will thrive together.
  
  
• The Care for Rescued Wildlife Program at Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center (PTWRC) rounds out our comprehensive effort to protect, rescue and rehabilitate apes through a pioneering rehabilitation project that helps rescued gibbons regain skills to survive in the wild.
  
  
• Our Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team (WRRT) saves apes, primarily gibbons, from the wildlife trade.  WRRT officers from Wildlife Alliance and the Cambodian Forestry Administration conduct patrols throughout the country and intercept animal shipments at borders, along local and national roads and in city markets and restaurants.