# Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura join hands to save India’s only ape 2026-11-03T14:38:13+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 3 independent outlets Sixteen forest guards from Assam, Meghalaya and Tripura completed a week-long residential training programme on Western Hoolock Gibbon conservation at Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary from 24 to 30 October. The programme was organised by biodiversity research organisation Aaranyak in collaboration with the Assam Forest Department. The training covered gibbon census, habitat restoration, GPS field research methods, rescue and rehabilitation, and wildlife laws. Participants received manuals, awareness posters and certificates. Sentinel Assam reports that the three states have also formed a trans-boundary alliance after the International Primatological Society listed the species among the world's 25 most endangered primates for 2025 to 2027, with fewer than 10,000 gibbons estimated to survive in India's northeast. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Sentinel Assam leads with a dramatic 90% population crash and a call for a 'Project Gibbon' to mirror Project Tiger, framing the crisis as national in scale. Hub Network and Highland Post report straight from the training event, naming dates, participants, and session topics without the catastrophic opening. The two wire-style accounts are uniform coverage. The balanced reading is that while the species is unquestionably endangered, the concrete story is a routine inter-state capacity-building workshop: forest guards learned census methods and GPS use. The next step the sources name is for the 16 trained guards to act as conservation ambassadors in their home districts. ## Coverage Coverage: 3 sources, 2 neutral, 1 sensationalist - sentinelassam.com (sensationalist) Leads with 90% crash and call for Project Gibbon - hubnetwork.in (neutral report) Straight training event report with dates and names - highlandpost.com (neutral report) Straight training event report with dates and names This brief was synthesised by AI from the 3 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Tags: Aaranyak, Assam, Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary, Meghalaya, Tripura, western hoolock gibbon Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/assam-meghalaya-tripura-join-hands-to-save-indias-only-ape/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/assam-meghalaya-tripura-join-hands-to-save-indias-only-ape/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/