The Golden-Mantled Tree Kangaroo, is the rarest tree kangaroo. It is endemic to montane forests of New Guinea, it was discovered in 1990 by Pavel German in Mount Sapau,their population was in 1990 about 1250 now it is less than 250 with decline at a rate of 80%, it is classified as Critically Endangered in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Threats again are the local people, who are hunting it for its meat, habitat loss because of conversing forest to cultivated land and the lowland areas are lost because of deforestation and oil palm expansion
The Golden-Mantled Tree Kangaroo, is the rarest tree kangaroo.It is endemic to montane forests of New Guinea, it was discovered in 1990 by Pavel German in Mount Sapau,their population was in 1990 about 1250 now it is less than 250 with decline at a rate of 80%, it is classified as Critically Endangered in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)