Thriving population of endangered monkeys gives hope to conservationists

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• Delacour’s langur (Trachypithecus delacouri) is a critically endangered primate species endemic to Vietnam, with only 234-275 estimated remaining today.
• In response to habitat loss and poaching, local communities teamed up with a German primatologist to form Van Long Nature Reserve.
• Van Long has effectively protected its langur population, which has quadrupled in size since the reserve was established in 2001. With currently around 200 individuals, the reserve houses the bulk of the world’s remaining Delacour’s langurs.
• Conservationists hope that more langur habitat will be protected to safeguard other populations from poaching as well as deforestation from agriculture and limestone quarrying for cement production.

While in many places, ecosystems and wildlife are under increasing threat and suffering population declines, Vietnam’s Van Long Nature Reserve provides a light in the darkness. The reserve is home to the largest population of Delacour’s langurs (Trachypithecus delacouri), a critically endangered monkey species endemic to the country and numbering fewer than 300 in the wild today.

Through efforts by local communities along with German primatologist Tilo Nadler, the population has quadrupled since 2000. Now, Nadler is trying to establish more reserves to protect langurs living outside of it that are threatened by deforestation and poaching.

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