'Animal genocide': Meet the activists fighting poaching in Vietnam's forests

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In Vietnam, national parks are primarily in name only and poaching has made its mark, writes Stephen Nash

But despite the blandishments in that government-issued invitation to the park we’d received, there are no more Delacour’s langurs in these forests, nor any other kind. No bears, leopards or smaller cats either, unless they are so well hidden that even scientists cannot find them, Adam Davies, director of the Endangered Primate Rescue Centre, tells me.

 

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