Quang Nam local resident hands over rare primateA local resident in central Quang Nam Province’s Dong Giang District has handed over a red-shanked douc langur (pygathrix nemaeus) to the district’s forest management unit, according to local authorities. – Photo VnexpressCo Lau Deo, from A Ting Commune, bought the primate from a local person last month. Therefore, local forest rangers will continue raising it for a short period before releasing it in the wild,” Khanh told VnExpress online newspaper. The primate is listed in the IIB group as endangered in the Red Book of Viet Nam and is on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Red List of Threatened Species. Destruction of its natural habitat is another threat to the species, according to IUCN.

Source: VietNamNet News March 13, 2018 06:56 UTC