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Found on the southern Chinese island of Hainan, the Hainan crested gibbons are considered the rarest  primates of the world, and rightly so. Apparently it should  no longer give 30 Hainanese crested gibbons, so they belong next to species like  the Vaquita  to the animals threatened with extinction. Not only the persistent hunt, but also enormous  problems due to the small  population endanger the survival of the  Species enormous despite slightly increasing population numbers. Because the few that are left at all  Animals are vulnerable to disease, natural disasters and due to the small number of gibbons  also for genetic impoverishment and inbreeding. All dangers that can hardly be averted even by protecting the Bawangling National Park and fighting hunting. The species was still widespread in almost all of Hainan in the 1960s, and by the end of the 1950s there were said to be more than 2000 Hainan crested gibbons. However, the populations then continued to decrease rapidly, so that by the 1970s there were only eight individuals of this special species  primate species existed. Back then  they were only regarded as a subspecies of the eastern black crested gibbon ( Nomascus nasutus ), which meanwhile, with around 100 individuals, must also be regarded as critically endangered and is struggling with similar problems to the Hainan crested gibbon. some years