Conservation Status
Because it can live in both dry and gallery forests and move on the ground, the guereza is less threatened than many other colobine species. The IUCN lists it as Least Concern because "although locally threatened in parts of its range, this widespread species is not thought to be declining fast enough to place it in a higher category of threat." Unlike most other primate species, the guereza can survive habitat degradation and can even thrive in degraded forests. Sometimes, logging may increase the number of preferred food trees for guerezas and the monkeys are more abundant in logged areas than unlogged ones. Nevertheless, complete forest clearings cause their numbers to decline which is what happened in Uganda. Guerezas are also threatened by hunting/harvesting for their meat and skins. Guereza meat has been sold on the bushmeat trade for $4–9 US. The guereza skins have been sold for fashion or in the tourist trade.
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