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Fauna & Flora works with community-based conservation teams in Pu Mat National Park to strengthen law enforcement, remove illegal snares and monitor gibbon and elephant populations.
Pu Mat National Park is one of Vietnam’s largest national parks and home to several hundred gibbon groups, making it a global stronghold for the northern white-cheeked gibbon.
Our work in Pu Mat National Park
Fauna & Flora’s community-based teams support law enforcement and provide technical support to the park through capacity building and scientific monitoring of the park’s wildlife. Additionally, we work with communities living in and around Pu Mat National Park on sustainable livelihood initiatives and implement conservation criminology approaches, including situational crime prevention.
Project goals
The capacity of authorities to manage the park effectively is limited, leading to threats from hunting and unsustainable livelihood practices. These threats are exacerbated by several roads that were recently built into the park for national security and border patrols. The roads fragment the habitat and make it easier for people to carry out illegal and unsustainable activities. We aim to strengthen the park’s effectiveness and sustainability, providing more robust monitoring and focusing international and domestic attention on gibbon conservation.
Project timeline
Ranger working in Pu Mat National Park. © Le Duc / Fauna & Flora
2022
Systematic surveys of snare prevalence completed.
Northern white-cheeked gibbon. © Fan Pengfei / Dali University / Fauna & Flora
2020
Updated population survey of the park’s northern white-cheeked gibbons completed.
© Le Duc / Fauna & Flora
2019
First ever park-wide camera-trap survey completed.
Pu Mat National Park © Steph Baker / Fauna & Flora
2016
Fauna & Flora begins new era of conservation in Pu Mat National Park.
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Partners
This project is delivered in partnership with Pu Mat National Park Management Board, Re:wild, Leibniz Institute for Zoo & Wildlife Research and Save Vietnam’s Wildlife.
Donors
This project is funded by the UK Government through the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund.
We are also grateful for financial support from US Fish & Wildlife Service, Re:wild, Perth Zoo, Taronga Zoo, Wellington Zoo and Zoos Victoria.
Wildlife in peril
Action is urgently needed to improve law enforcement, build the capacity of community conservation teams and develop a sustainable management plan for Pu Mat.
Please help us to protect the park and its threatened wildlife.
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Country Director, Vietnam Programme
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