Kon Ka Kinh National Park in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai has received a pig-tailed macaque – an endangered and rare species, Director of the park’s Centre for Creature Rescue, Conservation and Development Tran Van Thu said on June 16.
Pig-tailed macaques (Photo: Wikimedia)
Gia Lai (VNA) – Kon Ka Kinh National Park in the Central Highlandsprovince of Gia Lai has received a pig-tailed macaque – an endangered and rarespecies, Director of the park’s Centre for Creature Rescue, Conservation andDevelopment Tran Van Thu said on June 16.
Since 2019, the centre has received 100 animals and 22.5 kgof snakes which have been then released into the nature.
A pig-tailed macaque handed over to Kon Ka Kinh national park (Photo: VNA)
They are mostly handed over to the centre by localsvoluntarily or by the Forest Protection Departments after the detection ofillegal animal trading.
Thu said that over the past years, the promotion ofdissemination to raise public awareness of wildlife protection has been one themain tasks of the centre./.
Two critically endangered animals have been put under protection of the Cuc Phuong National Park in northern Ninh Binh province after they were found near residential areas, the national park announced on June 1.
More than 1,000 Asian openbills, an endangered species in Vietnam, are gathering at a savanna called Ta Not inside the Lo Go – Xa Mat National Park in the southeastern province of Tay Ninh, according to the national park’s director Chau Van Van.
In order to prevent extinction and save endangered wildlife species in Vietnam, especially pangolins, over the years, the Center for Wildlife Conservation in Vietnam has collaborated with Cuc Phuong National Park to rescue, save and release pangolins back into the wild.
