Community-based monitoring and population viability analysis for the critically endangered Delacour’s langurs in Kim Bang forests, Ha Nam province, Vietnam to set up long-term conservation prioritie

The project’s goal is to ensure the long-term survival of the Delacour’s langur sub-population in Kim Bang forests through community-based monitoring and habitat and population viability assessment to inform conservation management priorities. The specific objectives are:

• To get involvement of local authorities and communities in monitoring the Delacour’s langur sub-population and patrolling forests through the establishment and operation of a community monitoring team;
• To conduct Population Viability Analysis (PVA) for the Delacour’s langur in Kim Bang forests to help policy makers and conservation organizations develop effective conservation actions to protect and recover the population in the wild.

1. Establishment and operation of a community monitoring team We will work with provincial and district Forest Protection Department (FPD) and close-to-forest communes to select and set up a community-based Delacour’s langur monitoring team, consisting of three villagers. Then, we will develop a monitoring manual and information collecting protocols, that will be used by the monitoring team later, for training monitoring members.
2. Population Viability Analysis The above population monitoring results and previous population surveys will provide input data for PVA using VORTEX software to determine extinction probability of the species in different scenarios to guide conservation decisions.