In 2011 the DLF supported by a major grant from Critical Ecosystems Partnership Fund trained 25 local people to be ecotourism guides. These guides took part in a yearlong training that included workshop instruction along with field practice in Son Tra Nature Reserve. Local guides who will protect the doucs and the forest are trained…
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The DLF has provided funds for equipment for rangers that directly protect Douc Langurs. Often forest and park rangers lack the equipment to effectively protect Douc Langurs or the forest. To improve this situation the DLF has provided binoculars, GPS units, communication equipment and motorcycles to follow or apprehend poachers.
The DLF was founded in 2007 after the largest douc population ever found was discovered by the DLF at Son Tra Nature Reserve near Danang, Vietnam. The story goes like this. In late November, 2006 Danang Forest Protection Department asked the DLF to complete a critical survey at Son Tra Nature Reserve to substantiate whether…
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Lois K. Lippold, PhD is President and founder of the Douc Langur Foundation and has spent more than 40 years in scientific research and conservation activities focused on Douc Langurs in Vietnam. She conducted the first field study of doucs in 1974 during the Vietnam War (referred to as the American War in Vietnam) at…
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