A PRIMATE LOST TO SCIENCE FOR NEARLY A CENTURY IS STILL ALIVE.
Local rescuers documented more than 90 Bangka slow lorises—and returned 86 to protected forest.
For most of a century, science treated the Bangka slow loris as a near-ghost. A rescue center on Bangka Island has now assembled the evidence that the primate is still here.
WHAT HAPPENED
The last scientific records dated to 1930–1932. Between 2015 and 2025, Alobi Wildlife Rescue Center documented more than 90 Bangka slow lorises and released 86 at seven protected forest sites. The work combined rescue records, local reports, field surveys, veterinary care, and carefully chosen release habitat.
WHY THIS IS HOPESLOP
This is hope with its boots on. Local knowledge kept sight of an animal the formal record had lost, and a decade of patient rescue work turned that knowledge into evidence and returns to the wild. The comeback remains fragile: forests are still being cleared and lorises are still captured for the illegal pet trade.
ORIGINAL SOURCERe:wild / Alobi Wildlife Rescue CenterRead the original report
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