Nghe An man hands over two red-faced monkeys

A man in the northern central province of Nghe An has just handed over two red-faced monkeys to local forest rangers.

Director of Pu Hoat Nature Reserve Management Board, Nguyen Van Sinh announced on Thursday that they had coordinated with forest rangers in Que Phong District to release two red-faced monkeys into the wild.

“The monkeys were handed over by a local man who was persuaded by local forest rangers to release them after they had been kept in a cage at his house,” Sinh said. “We’ve also widely announced that keeping wild animals without clear origins was risky and illegal.”

According to the official, the two monkeys were given a health check which showed that they had a total weight of 16 kilos and were in stable condition.

“After finding them in good health, we decided to release them back into a local forest right after receiving them from the resident,” he said.

Red-faced monkeys belong to group IIB in the list of critically endangered, rare species.