We’re thrilled to announce our “Virtual Vietnam” talk live from Dao Tien Primate Species Centre on 7th April 2025 at 11am (UK time)! The team who are working tirelessly on Dao Tien will be live to chat with you, updating you on how our released douc and gibbons are faring, as well as the upcoming […]
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Kizzy’s Family of Five Return to the Forest- Thanks to Support from ARCUS Foundation
In 2024, EAST released five southern golden-cheeked gibbons (Nomascus gabriellae) back into newly protected forest in South Vietnam. The adults Kizzy and Dong were both fitted with Lotek Lite Track GPS/ satellite collars and are being successfully monitored post-release. In September the family of five (Kizzy, Dong with offspring Bich, Tuyen and Fizzy) were transferred […]
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The release of six gibbons in 2019
In 2019, EAST released six gibbons back into protected forest in South Vietnam. As well as tracking these individuals, the team are already preparing to release another family in 2020… In May we started our gibbon releases with single female Bien, then in September we followed on with Misu’s family, Misu, Limhuyen and their three […]
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From Understanding Douc to Releasing Douc
Our first douc arrived on Dao Tien in 2008 named Toastie. We kept her warm with skin contact, rehydrated her, she fed well, we let her rest… but she did not wake up. Over the years we have learnt that you cannot let newly rescued infants sleep too much. For the first 48 hours you […]
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Go-EAST at Monkey World this Easter!
Thank you to all the visitors to Monkey World who visited us in Dorset (UK) to find out about the different primates we work with in Vietnam, how we have to work with them all differently based on their diet, social grouping, innate behaviours, locomotion and how we prepare them for release. Special thank you […]
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Specialist infant douc & silvered langur emergency care house is finally under construction!
Specialist infant douc & silvered langur emergency care house, primary funded from EAST & MW supporters back in 2020 is under construction in Vietnam. After what has felt like endless delays due to covid and post covid problems, at last our much needed house for rescued infant douc and silvered langurs is being built with […]
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Baby Bengal – so much about this amazing nocturnal primate we do not know!
Bengal slow loris have the largest geographic range of all slow loris species, native to Bangladesh, north-east India, and Indochina (Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Vietnam, southern China, and Thailand). In Vietnam, Bengal are only found in the north, not naturally from the tropical monsoon forests of the south. This is possibly one of the reasons we primarily […]
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Best friends! – Quy and Hon Me
Quy (black-shanked douc) who was rescued last year in November is going from strength to strength. However as he’s much smaller and younger than our other rescued douc, his daily adventures in the trees have had to be on his own, with Miss Phoung and Miss Hang trying their very best to climb a few […]
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The re-opening of Dao Tien to Visitors
After a closure of over two years, we are so happy to say we are open again to share our work on the frontline of primate conservation in Vietnam. The daily morning tours lasts around two hours, where you are shown the centre and provided with a highly detailed educational insight into the problems with […]
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Our nursery of infant douc – growing up
The rescue and captive management of douc langurs is incredibly rewarding yet equally challenging as we try to develop protocols for emergency care and rehabilitation through all stages of growth. With limited wild and captive data on this critically endangered monkey, a lot of our protocols comes from colleagues’ research in Vietnam, our own research, […]