Catastrophic monkey family

Last December 2010, at the 4th National Environmental Film Festival, the documentary. Green forest crime by photographer, director Le Hoai Phuong has won the 'Green Vietnam' award - the festival's highest award. To make this film, Le Hoai Phuong quietly followed the hunters of monkeys for three years.

Not only filming, the author also used the camera to capture images of massacre. In this series of articles, Le Hoai Phuong not only first published images that could serve as evidence of crimes of green forest assassins, but also gave a different perspective on these assassins. as well as the behind-the-scenes story of how the author could make those precious documentary footage.

Worthy of the ancestors of humans, the organization of monkeys is very tight. Each pack always has one
monkey leader. The monkeys are responsible for observing and alerting the whole herd. Each forest
large is usually only one monkeys live.

In order to trap the monkey, the hunters used the left corn on the bushes to lure them. From
outside the net, monkeys who want to eat corn must go through bamboo stems as bridges made by animal hunters
deliberately created. This bridge is tied with a strong rope, pulled into thum where the hunters catch animals
hiding. Just cut off the rope, the bamboo bridge collapsing is the monkey inside the net that will be completely way
Glass with the outside and they will be caught.

The monkeys went to eat corn and went out, climbed a tall tree to warn the danger
of carnivorous animals, at the same time signaling the whole herd to eat corn. The animal hunters waited for
The largest number of monkeys are chopped off, the monkey bridge collapses. The monkey in the net is completely isolated
with outside. The animal hunters suddenly appeared, the monkey herds ran but only ran
be in the net .

In addition to trapping corn to capture all monkeys, the animal hunters also trapped the ring to catch each
individual children. Usually, monkeys often catch this kind of trap because of their leader position. If
The monkey-headed monkey stuck to the round trap, but he managed to escape by himself, he was still usurped by another monkey.

According to monkey hunters, the type that most merchants order is monkeys
over 2kg and the female monkey is raising the child. Therefore, when trapping the monkey and female monkeys are captured first and
always take special care.

After the first panic, the majority of young monkeys and female monkeys were captured. Male monkeys
gradually calm down, starting to act against it. These are male monkeys with strong temperament
strong, can become the monkeys in the future. Their bites are fatal, extreme
dangerous, so the solution against this male monkey group is to break teeth. The seeds are yellow
They eat to save the cheeks, now fall with the broken teeth, look very poor.

The most heartbreaking is probably the monkeys hiding behind the trunk of the tree alone, witnessing the siege
catch and don't understand why humans catch all their families. Then the monkeys just
The rest alone wandered in the empty forest.