Environmental Training in Kon Ka Kinh National Park:
Green Forest Magazine focusing on primates - 2008
As part of Education for Nature Vietnam’s National Mobile Wildlife Trade Education Progra, ENV conducted a short five day training program for participants from Kon Ka Kinh National Park and neighboring Kon Chu Rang Nature Reserve focusing on raising awareness about the protection of the critically endangered grey-shanked douc langur (Pygathrix nemaeus cinerea). The grey-shanked langur is a native of both aeas and endemic to the provinces in central vietnam and is threatened locally by hunting and the wildlife trade.
This training was aimed at preparing ENV’s local partners at both protected areas to integrate a primate lesson plan specfically focused on the grey-shanked douc langur’s protection. ENV has carried out similiar training focused on some of Vietnam’s critically endangered primates at Cuc Phuong National Park and Van Long Nature Reserve with Delacour’s Langurs and Pu Huong Nature Reserve in Nghe An Province focused on White-cheeked gibbons.
This project was supported by the Houston Zoo and the Margot Marsh Biodiversity Foundation.
