Chennai, Aug. 13 -- After a video of popular Tamil actor Vikram playing with Lar Gibbon went viral on social media, the Tamil Nadu Forest Department has issued a notice seeking a written explanation from him in three days as to how he got the endangered primate.
Vikram had posted the video in his Instagram and has deleted it later after it drew backlash from wildlife enthusiasts and conservators.
Lar Gibbon (Hylobates Lar), also known as the white-handed gibbon, is an endangered primate in the gibbon family and is listed in Appendix-1 of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) and its import required the nod of CITES and the Tamil Nadu Chief Wildlife Warden, besides documentation by the ...