Thua Thien-Hue issues emergency action plan to protect primates
The central province of Thua Thien-Hue has issued an emergency action plan to conserve primates by 2025, with a vision to 2030, focusing on local national parks, reserves and natural forests.
Red-shanked douc, a rare primate species (Photo: VNA)
Thua Thien-Hue (VNA) – The central province of ThuaThien-Hue has issued an emergency action plan to conserve primates by 2025,with a vision to 2030, focusing on local national parks, reserves and naturalforests.
In this plan, Thua Thien-Hue aims to improve theawareness of primate conservation among agencies, organisations andcommunities, especially people residing in the buffer zones of national parksand reserves.
It looks to promote relevant agencies’ lawenforcement and sense of responsibility to protect primate species and theirhabitat and minimise the poaching, trading and consumption of primate products.The province also hopes to improve local conservationists’ capacity, especiallyspecies identification, rescue and monitoring skills.
To that end, Thua Thien-Hue is set to step upconservation education programmes to raise public awareness and better lawenforcement efficiency and sense of responsibility of agencies and communities.
Forest management units will include primateconservation activities into their plans. While research activities will beincreased, science and technology will be further applied in surveying andmonitoring activities to support the conservation.
The province will also enhance cooperation withdomestic and foreign partners in this work, according to the emergency actionplan.
Bach Ma National Park in Thua Thien-Hue hasrecorded nine primate species, accounting for 36 percent of total primatespecies in Vietnam and 60 percent of those in the central area of Truong SonRange. All of them are classified as rare.
Meanwhile, Phong Dien Nature Reserve harbourseight primate species, three of which are indigenous to Vietnam, namely red-shankeddouc (Pygathrix nemaeus), pygmy slow loris (Nycticebus pygmaeus) andnorthern white-cheeked gibbon (Nomascus leucogenys).–VNA
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Red-shanked douc, a rare primate species (Photo: VNA) 
