Ulindi River red colobus

The Ulindi River red colobus (Piliocolobus lulindicus) is a species of red colobus monkey found only in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and it takes its name from the Ulindi River. It was long treated as part of Foa's red colobus (Piliocolobus foai), but the IUCN Red List and the American Society of Mammalogists now tentatively recognize it as a distinct species. It lives in lowland forests east of the Lualaba River, where the Albertine Rift forms a barrier to the east of its range, and its range runs from the Lukuga River in the south to the Lowa River in the north. The species is threatened by habitat loss and by hunting: its large size makes it a frequent target of the bushmeat trade, and large areas of its forest are being cleared for farmland.