To tackle trafficking in gibbons, experts probe what drives demand

Mongabay
Apr 20, 2026, 2:37 pm184 ptsTrendingTop
“When we first got Joy, we thought he was a monkey,” says Esther. A hunter had come to her village in the Malaysian state of Sabah, on the island of Borneo, to sell wild meat. He showed Esther (not her real name) and her husband a weeks-old primate with long arms, dark skin and large, round eyes. Worried…

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