A community conservation team saw not one but two baby Cao-vit gibbons, one of the world’s rarest apes, in the remote forests of northern Vietnam in 2024, the NGO Fauna & Flora announced this month.

In the remote rainforests of Vietnam, the “king of the swingers” was thought to have gone extinct. Cao vit gibbons, or eastern black crested gibbons, have maintained incredibly small ...