'Make home' for ... snub-nosed monkey

Ha Giang Provincial People's Committee has just approved the establishment of Tonkin snub-nosed conservation area in Khau Ca forest area. The reserve is built on an area of ​​2,000ha, called ' Species Conservation Area and Ha Giang Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey '.

This will be home to about 90 individual snub-nosed monkeys. It is known that this is also the largest populations of the Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey.

The World Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Vietnam Red Book put Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys on an extremely dangerous level in the red list of threatened species.

Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys in Khau Ca . (Photo: VNN)

There are about 250 individual upturned snub-nosed monkeys in the world. In Vietnam, this langur is only known from two provinces, Tuyen Quang (discovered in the early 90s) and Ha Giang (discovered 2002 in Khau Ca forest area).

However, 'the most difficult issue is still the recovery of depleted forest land in the reserve to expand the habitat for the douc population. Especially the close cooperation between local ethnic communities and the technical support of international experts ' - A representative of the reserve management board said.

Currently in the world there are only 4 species of Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys, of which 3 are in China and 1 is in our country.