Sumatran serow [SEP] IUCN conservation status
Sumatran serow
The Sumatran serow ("Capricornis sumatraensis"), also known as the southern serow, is a species of goat-antelope native to mountain forests in the Thai-Malay Peninsula and on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The former name of this species is "mainland serow", as all the mainland species of serow (Chinese, red and Himalayan) were previously considered subspecies of this species. The Sumatran serow is threatened due to habitat loss and hunting, leading to it being evaluated as vulnerable by the
species in captivity, legal specialists considered the ruling only applicable to hominid apes due to their genetic similarities to humans.
Conservation.
Conservation Conservation status.
The Sumatran and Bornean species are both critically endangered according to the IUCN Red List of mammals, and both are listed on Appendix I of CITES. The IUCN estimated in 2016 that around 100,000 orangutans survive in the wild (in 1973 there were 288,500), and their population is expected to further decrease to as few as 47,000 individuals by 2025.
The Bornean orangutan