Many rare animals discovered in Ke Go Nature Reserve

In order to monitor and preserve biodiversity, the Management Board of Ke Go Nature Reserve (Ha Tinh) coordinated with relevant agencies to implement a project to install 88 camera traps throughout the reserve, recording images of wildlife activities.

Purple pheasant.

Through the camera trap system, 19 species of mammals, 13 species of birds and 1 species of reptiles were recorded. Among them are familiar species such as striped rabbits, peach-cheeked squirrels, monkeys, bamboo rats, black squirrels, deer, wild boars; and rare and rarely seen species such as palm civets, crab-civets, wild cats, chevrotains, palm civets, northern silver-cheeked weasels, reticulated civets, yellow-throated weasels.

The individual chevrotain.

Among the mammal and bird species recorded through the above camera traps, there are many individuals in the list of endangered and rare forest animals in groups IB and IIB, listed in the Vietnam and world Red Book, strictly prohibiting illegal hunting, exploitation, and trading and needing priority protection and conservation.

Ke Go Nature Reserve is located in the south of Ha Tinh province, about 15km from Ha Tinh city, in the eastern area of ​​the Northern Truong Son range, with a total area of ​​over 44,000 hectares and stretching across 3 districts of Cam Xuyen, Huong Khe, and Ky Anh.

Up to now, within the Ke Go Nature Reserve, there are 80 species of mammals, 298 species of birds, 63 species of reptiles and 33 species of amphibians, 302 species of insects and 35 species of fish.

Among the mammal species, up to 17 species (accounting for 21%) are in the endangered and rare group that need special conservation, including bat-nosed ferrets, giant slow lorises, red-faced monkeys, pig-tailed macaques, macaques, brown-shanked douc langurs, red-cheeked gibbons, Asian black bears, sun bears, common otters, binturongs, leopards, tigers, gaurs, mountain goats, golden pangolins and giant flying squirrels.

According to the Management Board of Ke Go Nature Reserve, in the coming time, the authorities need to have solutions and support funding sources to implement the management, protection and conservation of biodiversity in the forest area managed by the Management Board of Ke Go Nature Reserve.

Some images of rare wildlife individuals at Ke Go Nature Reserve recorded by camera traps:

Many bird species were discovered for the first time.

deer

Pangolin animal.

Striped rabbit.

Bird species recorded at Ke Go Nature Reserve.

Cat.

Yellow-throated ferret.