The central Quang Ngai Province's forest management department began legal procedures today to shift a grey-shanked douc langur to the northern Ninh Binh Province's Cuc Phuong Endangered Primate Rescue Centre.
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| Photo shows a grey-shanked douc laungur – the species native to Vietnam. — Photo baodatviet.vn |
The langur, nearly a year old and weighing about 1kg, was handed over by a local man to the forest management department yesterday. The man had captured it in a local forest recently.
The grey-shanked douc langur is a species native to Vietnam and is included in the list of endangered species in the Vietnam Red Book. It is also one of the world's 25 most endangered primates.