A family of critically endangered Delacour's langurs have been photographed at Van Long Nature Reserve in northern Vietnam.
In a gorgeous image, captured by Fauna & Flora’s Rob Small, an adult langur can be seen pausing beside an infant. In the background, an adolescent leaps confidently from one outcrop to another.
Confined to small pockets of forest among the region’s jagged limestone mountains, there are estimated to be fewer than 600 of these rare black-and-white monkeys left in the wild.
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Threats to the Delacour's langur include hunting, mining and deforestation.
The team at Fauna & Flora (a nature conservation charity) is working with local government and partners to look after the important habitat where the species lives. Their work involves supporting community-led patrols, which include former hunters, to monitor the monkeys and help protected them from extinction.
Top image: A family of critically endangered Delacour's langurs, Van Long Nature Reserve, Vietnam. Credit: Rob Small/Fauna & Flora
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