The Endangered Primate Rescue Center (EPRC) in Cuc Phuong National Park is a safe haven for nearly 250 individuals of 14 endangered primate species in need of protection. Established in 1993, EPRC is the first center in Indochina to carry out the mission of rescuing, rehabilitating, breeding, conserving and releasing rare primates of Vietnam back into the wild. With more than 70 cages and 2 semi-wild areas, this place is actively protecting the “treasures” of the old forest such as gibbons, langurs and loris from illegal wildlife trafficking and the risk of extinction. Photos taken by Van Chi and published by the Vietnam News Agency.

A workshop was held in the central province of Quang Binh on September 16 to review a cooperation model for managing and conserving the Hatinh langur, a critically endangered primate, in a special-use forest in Tuyen Hoa district.

A red-shanked douc langur (pygathrix nemaeus) was handed over to the Cuc Phuong national park in the northern province of Ninh Binh by forest rangers in Phu Loc district, the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on August 14.