A Sa Pa resident discovered a small loris while working in the fields and brought it to the Hoang Lien Center for Rescue - Conservation and Development of Creatures to take care of and release it back into the forest. Photo: TL
Nguyen Huu Hanh, Director of Hoang Lien National Park, said that on June 23, Hoang Lien National Park in collaboration with the Center for Rescue - Conservation and Development of Hoang Lien Creatures re-released 5 species with 20 fishes. wild animals in natural forest in Xe mountain area, near O Quy Ho Heaven Gate.
These wild animals were received from seizures, donated, rescued, and now released back into the wild.
Specific numbers include 3 individuals of small loris (nycticebus pygmaeus); 5 large-headed turtles (platysternon megacephalum); 6 individuals of moldy civet (Paguma larvata); 2 wildcats (prionailurus bengalensis); 4 pythons (python molurus).
The number of wild animals released into the wild on June 23, 2022. Photo: TL
The fact that Hoang Lien National Park organizes the re-release of wild animals after rescue to the natural environment is a practical activity on the occasion of the 115th anniversary of the establishment of Lao Cai province (July 12, 1907 - July 12, 2022). and 20 years of establishment of Hoang Lien National Park (July 12, 2002 - July 12, 2022).
In Lao Cai province, there are 955 species of wildlife with national and global conservation value. Including 155 precious and rare species; 20 rare species listed in the Red Book of Vietnam and the Red Book of the World; 19 species included in the CITES Appendix; 22 typical endemic species for the high mountains of Hoang Lien Son.
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