Conservation of Primates in Vietnam

Pp. xvii, 174; numerous color photographs, color maps, black-and-white photographs and graphs.  Publisher’s original light green and dark green pictorial laminated boards (hardcover), color pictorial dust jacket, color pictorial endpapers, sm 4to.  Vietnam is part of the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot.  Of the 21 primate species occurring in Vietnam, four are “critically-endangered” and four others are “Endangered” including several species that are on the verge of extinction.  This volume represents a major step in documenting the distribution, status and threats to these species.  The volume also looks across the borders of neighboring countries such as China, Laos and Cambodia to get a better understanding of the regional distribution patterns and conservation issues (from the rear dust jacket panel).  No ownership marks and no signs of use.