[3] The endangered primates inhabit sixteen patches of forest (ranging from .1 to 6.25 km2) which extends for 60 km down the meandering lower Tana River, between Nkanjonja and Mitapani.
[1] Despite a $6.7 million World Bank Global Environment Facility project (1996 to 2001), conservation measures for the two primates[4] have been largely ineffective.
[3] In 2005, more than 250 families of farmers were relocated 90 km away to the coastal community of Kipini.
[5][1] In 2007, the High Court of Kenya ruled that the reserve had not been properly established according to Kenyan law.
[7] Recent research has shown that, if restored, this area could act as a refugium for wildlife with moderate levels of climate change.