How You Can Help

Donate to the Douc Langur Foundation to support

Research

Sponsor all or part of a research project to learn more about the ecology and behavior of the Douc Langur.   On going surveys are needed to find Douc Langurs in various forests and nature reserves in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. While it might be difficult to believe, many nature reserves and forests in each of these areas have never been surveyed to record the presence of Douc Langurs.  Whole populations remain undiscovered by scientific research.  However hunters and poachers know where the monkeys are and depend on these unrecorded populations as their source of animals for illegal markets.  Once the monkeys are discovered and brought to the attention of the Forest Protection Departments in these countries they can be protected and monitored.

Education

Sponsor all or part of an educational project for schools of towns and villages in areas which surround nature reserves and forests where Douc Langurs live.  Sponsor the printing of educational materials, translation into local dialects, the production of recorded educational material for those that are unable to read. Sponsor a part time teacher whose job is to share information on the Douc Langur and the forest.

Equipment

Provide funds for equipment for rangers that directly protect Douc Langurs. Forest and park rangers have little or no equipment with which to effectively protect Douc Langurs or the forest. They are usually lacking in binoculars, GPS units, communication equipment (cell phones work in some forests not others) and transportation to follow or apprehend hunters. We also need to provide funds to support patrols whose function would be to remove traps which occur in large numbers in all nature reserves and national parks.

Please send donations to:

Douc Langur Foundation
P.O. Box 23912
San Diego, CA 92193