Study urges legal protection for Sulawesi’s endangered bear cuscus amid habitat loss

Study urges legal protection for Sulawesi’s endangered bear cuscus amid habitat loss

A new study has shown the first habitat suitability model for the endangered bear cuscus in Indonesia’s South Sulawesi, showing its limited and fragmented range, much of which is threatened by mining and poaching, and calling for increased legal protection and landscape connectivity. The population of the bear cuscus (Ailurops ursinus), one of the four nocturnal marsupials endemic to Sulawesi, is now scattered and disconnected from each other ac…