Endangered Primate Rescue Center

The EPRC, based at Cuc Phuong National Park, is dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, breeding, research and conservation of the endangered primates of Vietnam.

The Center compromises more than 30 cages, 4 houses, two semi-wild enclosures and one quarantine station. It houses and takes care of over 100 animals, with representatives of 16 Indochinese primate taxa.

One of EPRC's major goals is to establish small stable captive populations of the most threatened endemic Vietnamese primates, and to re-introduce them to their natural habitats. They have acheived considerable success in captive breeding of little known species.

In cooporation with the Frankfurt Zoological Society, EPRC biologists have conducted field surveys on some of the world's rarest primate species that have provided valueable baseline information for urgent and focused conservation measures for these species.

WVI is providing field anaesthesia equipment and training in how to use it to the Center's staff. This will allow them to further develop their field work, and assist in the rehabilitation of confiscated primates.

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