"This high number of primates as pets demonstrates an extremely low intensity of ranger activities and of the forest protection authorities. Hunting, trading and keeping of all primates is illegal in Vietnam but the law enforcement for these obvious violations is extremely low or not existent. There exist also not any reprimands if a forest authority doesn’t fulfill their duties." Vietnamese Journal of Primatology, Nov.2012, page 80, click the title of the article "Macaque distributions..." on this website : "Despite all species being protected by wildlife protection law, the capture of primates is ongoing here in Vietnam and has played a major role in the critical decline of the country’s endemic species.
The pet trade is only one of the threats on the list, but it concerns most of the primates we have been rescuing over the years since the animals are kept alive and can be spotted by neighbors or relatives and denounced to the authorities before their life is at risk." Read more please:
"Most animals in the market are infants. The hunters catch them by shooting the mothers and gathering the young. This decimates the population of breeding females." Read more please:
Kevin MacLeod: Meditation Impromptu 01 – on license Creative Commons Attribution (
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