Vietnam partners with Thailand to save threatened crane species
The Vietnam Zoos Association has partnered with the Zoological Park Organisation (ZPO) of Thailand to increase the population of the Eastern Sarus Crane in Vietnam.
Eastern Sarus cranes in the Tram Chim National Park in Dong Thap province. (Source: VNA)
Bangkok (VNA) - The Vietnam Zoos Association has partneredwith the Zoological Park Organisation (ZPO) of Thailand to increase thepopulation of the Eastern Sarus Crane in Vietnam.
The agreement, signed through a memorandum of understanding(MoU), also involves cooperation from the People's Committee of Vietnam’sMekong Delta province of Dong Thap and the International Crane Foundation.
The ZPO has been reintroducing the Eastern SarusCrane to Thailand since 2009, with breeding and release into the naturalwetlands of Buri Ram province.
ZPO Director-General Attapon Srihayun said the organisationis striving to bring them back from the brink of extinction into their naturalhabitat.
The population of the bird in Vietnam is still at risk ofextinction, which is why the MoU aims to restore their number in the Tram ChimNational Park in Dong Thap province.
The partnership will involve breeding and transferringcaptive-reared juvenile sarus cranes from the Nakhon Ratchasima Zoo for releasein Vietnam, as well as training staff and developing captive-rearing facilitiesand a release and monitoring system./.
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Eastern Sarus cranes in the Tram Chim National Park in Dong Thap province. (Source: VNA) 
