Huro
The Western Hoolock Gibbon (Hoolock hoolock) lives in northeastern India, Bangladesh and Myanmar.
Threatened by habitat destruction as well as hunting for traditional medicine and the illegal pet trade, it is listed as "Endangered" on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List.
Activities
Founded in 2006, the French association Huro tries to preserve the Hoolock Gibbon in northeastern India, in the West Garo Hills district which is located in the western part of the State of Meghalaya. The association has built a center in the village of Silsotchigre which rescues poached gibbons who have been confiscated by the authorities. The center that includes a quarantine, a small clinic for carrying out veterinary care and several large aviaries housing the primates, aims to rehabilitating them and organizing, when possible, their release into a protected area.
© HURO 
© HURO 
© HURO
Huro also fully finances the Silsotchigre’s school (payment of the teachers' salaries and children's meals, purchase of school supplies). The school welcomes nearly a hundred pupils and integrates into its program specific educational activities related to the preservation of the environment and wildlife.
Education © HURO 
Education © HURO
Huro currently employs a dozen staff members.
Three gibbons rescued and rehabilitated by Huro have already been released: a pair in 2016 followed by a male in the spring of 2019 who has since formed a pair with a wild female.
Palmyre Conservation has been providing regular financial support to Huro since 2009.