Rangers from Hon Ba Nature Reserve in Dien Khanh District, returning from a survey of the top of the mountain on Monday, spotted three men carrying guns near the edge of the park.
A search of the area uncovered the bodies of five eviscerated doucs. The biggest weighed about 20 kilograms and the smallest about three kilograms.
The poachers confessed they slaughtered the douc to make traditional medicine. They went hunting for the monkeys after hearing there was a group living in the nature reserve.
The black-shanked douc, Pygathrix nigripes, is found mainly in north-eastern Cambodia and southern Vietnam. The species is in Vietnam’s Red Book, which lists the nation’s threatened and endangered species.
About 500 black-shanked douc live in Nui Chua National Park in Ninh Thuan Province, believed to be the biggest population of the endangered monkey in Vietnam, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Police on February 27 arrested two poachers for killing two black-shanked douc in a forest in Khanh Hoa Province’s Ninh Hoa District.
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