Danang City is raising public awareness over the desperate need to protect the red-shanked douc langur.
From April 25, advertising boards at bus stops at Danang City's Son Tra District have been replaced with those which have the image of the species with the message to protect the red-shanked langur.
A board to call for the protection of the red-shanked langur in Danang
According to the city-based the Biodiversity Conservation Centre, GreenViet, the campaign will be expanded to many other bus stops over the city soon.
The photos of the primates were taken by French wildlife photographers Cyril Russo and Vietnamese Nguyen Truong Sinh.
Next month, GreenViet will hold an exhibition at Danang Museum on the topic encouraging young people to join the campaign. Another exhibition on the species will also be organised in the city on December 17.
Son Tra Nature Reserve in the city has around 300 red-shanked douc langurs which live in groups of between five and seven.
The city’s forest protection sub-department prosecuted people for the illegal killing of three red-shanked langurs in the reserve. Traps are still found in the reserve and illegal hunting continues
