In the karst rock forests of North Vietnam, conservationists struggle for the preservation of one of the rarest species of primates in the world: only 250 individuals of the clown-like Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys are left. In 1989, the species believed extinct, was rediscovered. The Sisyphean task of the Vietnamese rangers and biologists in the rough terrain delivered its first successes. As first European journalist, the author accompanied the rangers on a four-day field trip through the remote karst rock mountain region near the Chinese border. He reports on the struggle of conservation of the species, on corruption, poaching and wildlife trade and on the change in the Vietnam of today. - Illustrated ebook. Also available as an illustrated paperback.



Author: Kai Althoetmar, born 1968 in Cologne, Germany, graduated from the Cologne School of Journalism and Cologne University and has been working as a freelance author specialising in wildlife since 1997. Kai Althoetmar lives in Bad Münstereifel in Germany. He is a member of the Zoological Society for the Protection of Species and Populations. Michaele Ijewski-Lamsfuhs, is a qualified translator with a degree of the Faculty of Applied Linguistics of the Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz.



Tonkin Expedition: In search of the last snub-nosed monkeys of Vietnam. A journey into the karst rock forests of Northern Vietnam.