Dusty langurs are an endangered species of monkey. As a student in Penang in Malaysia, Jo Leen Yap noticed how often these dusty langurs – especially mothers with young babies – died attempting to cross busy roads. These crossings were deadly either because of electrocution or because cars ran over them.
She created awareness during her Doctoral studies and led a group to build a bridge out of recycled fire hoses.
They soon learnt that the langurs were hesitant to use it and reinforced it further.
This “Bridge to Coexist” has led to the researchers capturing more 7000 langur crossings since – with zero deaths recorded.
They’re now getting to work on more such bridges.
We can’t always do the big things.
But we can always do the small things with extraordinary care.
And in time, the small things become the big things.
This is a textbook example of that.
Inspirational stuff.
