(VN)WWF primate investigation project starts in central province

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WWF primate investigation project starts in central

province

05/31/2004 -- 12:05(GMT+7)

 

Quang Nam, May 31 (VNA) - The World Wildlife Fund

(WWF) - Indochina Programme and the Forest Ranger

Department of central Quang Nam province have begun

works on a primate project in the province.

 

Research will be carried out over 250 days in 30

forests in the province to report on primate

populations and risks threatening primate.

 

Forests in the western region of the province are

home for a large number of Pygathrix cinerea, which is

a unique species, living only in Viet Nam. It is

estimated that there are about 600 individuals, living

in five provinces in the country's central provinces

and the Central Highlands.

 

The WWF's Indochina Programme and the provincial

Forest Ranger Department are also carrying out a

project on management of the A Vuong rain forest.

 

The project, launched earlier this month, will be

carried out in two years in collaboration with

partners of the central Truong Son bio-diversity

preservation programme.

 

The project aims to study ecological and

socio-economic development with the participation of

the Co Tu ethnic community in the A Vuong rain forest.

 

Forest and capital will be allocated to the Co Tu

people in order to boost economic, ecological and

social development in the region.

 

It is expected to serve as a basis for a programme to

allocate 300,000 ha of watershed forests in Quang Nam

province to local organizations before 2010.