On March 8, the Ho Chi Minh City Forest Protection Department received and brought to rescue a monkey voluntarily handed over by Mr. Nguyen Van Trung (in Tan Nhut commune, Binh Chanh district).
According to Mr. Trung, the monkey was given to him by someone in 2024, at that time the monkey had the characteristics of a tail stuck. Raising monkeys for about a year, he has now voluntarily given them to forest rangers with the hope that the monkeys can return to the natural environment.
"Seeing that imprisonment is too poor, I assigned the forest rangers to release it back into the wild, hoping that it would be able to return to live with nature to be a little more comfortable" - Mr. Trung said.
Forest rangers from the Ho Chi Minh City Forest Protection Department arrived, anesthetized the above monkey and took him to the Wildlife Rescue Station for health care and rescue according to regulations. The ranger recorded this as a long-tailed monkey, male, weighing about 4.6kg, scientific name is Macaca fascicularis, belonging to group IIB in the list of rare endangered wild animals. The long-tailed monkey has the characteristic of a tail gap.
Forest rangers recommend that people should not arbitrarily raise monkeys or some other wild animals because they have natural instincts and can attack and harm humans.
