Researchers working in northern Myanmar have taken the first ever photographs of the rare “snub-nosed” monkey.



It is thought that the high, forested mountains of Kachin state, contain fewer than 200 of the monkeys.



A joint team of researchers from Fauna & Flora International (FFI), Biodiversity And Nature Conservation (BANCA) and the People Resources and Conservation Foundation (PRCF) set camera traps in the mountains bordering China. Last Tuesday they announced that they had snapped the elusive primate.



Like many rare Asian mammals in the region, the monkey is threatened by both loss of habitat and hunting.



Ngwe Lwin, the Burmese national who first recognized the monkey as a possible new species, says the photographs are important as they are “the first record of the animal in it’s natural habitat” and the team is now working together with autho...