Hoolock Gibbon, the only ape in India is threatened as its habitat would be destroyed by oil and gas exploration.

Song of Hoolock Gibbons at Barekuri Sanctuary 6 Oct 2022: 19.5 mins Video Link: https://youtu.be/M1n_Z7ygJMU

Have a look at the location of Barekuri in Tinsukia in Assam(1).

Here is a video at close range on the behaviourial aspects of Hoolock hoolock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JWPsD3WpIk

The Hoolock gibbons' habitats are drastically reducing. Unless the habitat is as large as possible, the hoolock gi bbons will random walk to extinction(3).

Danger posed by a noisy vibration environment provided by a gas and oil exploration project at a sanctuary for Hoolock hoolock : video.Similar disturbance to animals in oil and gas exploration

References:

1. Location of Mohit Chutia's Farm used by Hoolock Gibbon Family as their Habitat.

See link

2. Population, Behavioural Ecology and Conservation of Hoolock Gibbon in Northeast India

• April 2013

DOI:10.2174/9781608054855113010014

• In book: Rare Animals of India (pp.242-266 (25))
• Chapter: Population, Behavioural Ecology and Conservation of Hoolock Gibbon in Northeast India
• Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers
• Editors: Natarajan Singaravelan

Authors:

Awadhesh Kumar

• North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology

Ashalata Devi

• Tezpur University

Atul Kumar Gupta

Kuladip Sarma

• Gauhati University

3.  S. Joseph Wright. 1990. Stochastic Extinction and reserve size. A focal species report.Abstract. Conservation in developing countries: Problems and Prospects.

4. The noise generated and the vibrations during oil and gas exploration within  a Hoolock gibbon 

Sanctuary will random walk the Gibbons to extinction.