We Raised €5,276.83 for the Cat Ba Langur Conservation Proyect

SOS Pri­ma­tes was initially esta­blished to sup­port the CRPL, Lwi­ro Pri­ma­tes, in the Demo­cra­tic Repu­blic of Con­go, which remains the pri­mary focus of our assis­tan­ce. Howe­ver, we recog­ni­ze that pri­ma­tes face devas­ta­ting cha­llen­ges glo­bally. The­re­fo­re, we orga­ni­ze a yearly cam­paign to sup­port pri­ma­tes in need in other parts of the world. Our cam­paign ‘This Year We Colla­bo­ra­te With…’ achie­ved great suc­cess, rai­sing €5,276.83 that has been dona­ted to the Cat Ba Lan­gur Con­ser­va­tion Pro­ject this week. The funds inclu­de dona­tions collec­ted through calen­dars, our Christ­mas lot­tery, and SOSo­li­da­rity raf­fles; they will be used to patrol and moni­tor the lan­gurs and their pro­tec­ted areas, com­mu­nity efforts against poa­ching, and envi­ron­men­tal edu­ca­tion in local schools. With a popu­la­tion of fewer than 100 indi­vi­duals, the Cat Ba lan­gur is one of the most endan­ge­red pri­ma­tes and threa­te­ned ani­mals on the pla­net. The enti­re popu­la­tion is con­fi­ned to an island in northeas­tern Viet­nam; over the past cen­tury, it has expe­rien­ced a catas­trophic decli­ne due to human activity.

The Cat Ba Lan­gur Con­ser­va­tion Pro­ject was esta­blished in the late 2000s to safe­guard the bio­di­ver­sity of the Cat Ba archi­pe­la­go. Its efforts focus on con­ser­va­tion, edu­ca­tion, anti-poa­ching patrols, refo­res­ta­tion, and legis­la­tion. The dona­tion made by SOS Pri­ma­tes with the gene­rous sup­port of par­ti­ci­pants in our cam­paign will enhan­ce the pro­tec­tion and moni­to­ring of the lan­gur popu­la­tion; it will also safe­guard the islan­d’s ove­rall bio­di­ver­sity through com­mu­nity anti-poa­ching initia­ti­ves. Addi­tio­nally, it will pro­mo­te envi­ron­men­tal lite­racy among the islan­d’s youth through a con­ti­nuous edu­ca­tion pro­gram desig