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Urgent Research to Safeguard the Javan Rhino in Vietnam

Grantee Name: World Wide Fund for Nature

Hotspot
Indo-Burma
Location
Viet Nam
Amount
$16,166
Dates
Dec 2009 – Dec 2010
Keywords
Research, Species Conservation
Intensively survey all suitable habitat of Javan Rhinoceros in the Cat Loc sector of Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam, through a combination of video camera traps and systematic dung surveys with detector dogs. DNA and hormone analysis of dung will help to provide a population estimate, and information on whether males are able to reproduce and whether females are pregnant or receptive to breeding.
Strategic Direction : 1 Safeguard priority globally threatened species in Indochina by mitigating major threats

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