A ˜national conservation strategy’ was being developed for the loris by the researchers with Sri Lanka’s forest and wildlife protection agencies and the ministry of environment.
UK high commission a statement quoted Craig Turner, a ZSL researcher as saying that the strategy would be published this year, when Turner and Saman Gamage, a Sri Lanka researcher met the UK envoy to Colombo, John Rankin.
A highland subspecies, the Horton Plains slender loris (Loris tardigradus nycticeboides) was ˜rediscovered’ by researches in 2009, and is considered one of a handful of most threatened primate species in the world.
Researchers have completed about 1,000 surveys. The group recently started a small reforestation project backed by the