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Story summary
- Alobi Wildlife Rescue Center rescued over 90 Bangka slow lorises and confirmed they survived.
- After treatment, 86 individuals were released into suitable forest habitats.
- A Spixiana paper used rescue records to verify the Bangka slow loris (Nycticebus bancanus) lives on Bangka.
- Researchers said illegal tin mining and oil-palm expansion are rapidly shrinking the loris’s forest.
- Student Timon Glaw of Haus des Meeres Aqua Terra Zoo co-authored the study, urging conservation.