Special postage stamps on Vietnam’s rare primates were launched in Hanoion August 11 as a call for the community’s joint effort to save theendangered species from extinction.
The four new stamp and oneblock designs, created by painter Do Lenh Tuan from the Vietnam PostCorporation, depicts five indigenous primate species of Vietnam that arein danger of extinction.
They are the Vooc Cat Ba (white-headed langur or Trachypithecus poliocephalus), Vooc mong trang(Delacour's langur or Trachypithecus delacouri), Vooc mui hech(Tonkin snub-nosed monkey or Rhinopithecus avunculus), Cha va chanxam (gray-shanked douc langur or Pygathrix cinerea), and Vuon dentuyen Dong Bac (Eastern black crested gibbon or Nomascus nasutus).
Thefirst four species were also featured on stamps launched in 2002.The same year also saw the re-discovery of the Vuon den tuyen DongBac (Eastern black crested gibbon or Nomascus nasutus), one of therarest and most endangered primate species in the world.
As of present, there have been 20 primate species depicted on 31 stamp and one block designs in Vietnam.
Vietnam is home to 26 primate species, five of them are listed among the world’s 25 most endangered primate species.
The publication of the stamps was in response to the 25thCongress of the International Primatological Society, which is takingplace in Vietnam from August 11 – 16.
Also on this occasion, thesecond volume of the “Primates in Fragments” book was introduced toVietnamese readers on August 10.- VNA
The four new stamp and oneblock designs, created by painter Do Lenh Tuan from the Vietnam PostCorporation, depicts five indigenous primate species of Vietnam that arein danger of extinction.
They are the Vooc Cat Ba (white-headed langur or Trachypithecus poliocephalus), Vooc mong trang(Delacour's langur or Trachypithecus delacouri), Vooc mui hech(Tonkin snub-nosed monkey or Rhinopithecus avunculus), Cha va chanxam (gray-shanked douc langur or Pygathrix cinerea), and Vuon dentuyen Dong Bac (Eastern black crested gibbon or Nomascus nasutus).
Thefirst four species were also featured on stamps launched in 2002.The same year also saw the re-discovery of the Vuon den tuyen DongBac (Eastern black crested gibbon or Nomascus nasutus), one of therarest and most endangered primate species in the world.
As of present, there have been 20 primate species depicted on 31 stamp and one block designs in Vietnam.
Vietnam is home to 26 primate species, five of them are listed among the world’s 25 most endangered primate species.
The publication of the stamps was in response to the 25thCongress of the International Primatological Society, which is takingplace in Vietnam from August 11 – 16.
Also on this occasion, thesecond volume of the “Primates in Fragments” book was introduced toVietnamese readers on August 10.- VNA
