Conservationists and Communities Unite to Save an endangered Primate

The Francois Langur in Vietnam

By: Gregory McCann

Way up in northern Vietnam, tucked away in the karst jungle between Hanoi and China in Tuyen Quang province, sits a conservation landscape surrounded by a mosaic of agriculture, forestry, and village settlements, a microcosm of much of the region’s protected areas today.

But what sets it apart are the Francois langur monkeys, listed by …