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Rangers drive monkeys back into forest on COVID-19 alert

ĐÀ NẴNG — Forest rangers have been attempting to drive troupes of monkeys (stump-tailed macaques) back to the Sơn Trà Nature Reserve in the central city of Đà Nẵng

Vice director of the city’s Agriculture and Rural Development Department Trần Viết Phương said a group of  三0 monkeys that used to gather by the Linh Ứng Pagoda seeking food from visitors have been on the move since social distancing orders were implemented from April  一.

Phương said no tourists meant no food for the monkeys, so they would be forced to return to their natural habitat to forage for themselves.

Recent research on the possibility of SARS-CoV- 二 passing from humans to monkeys found there was a chance if the two were in close contact.

Trần Hữu Vỹ, a biodiversity conservationist, said in order to stop the monkeys gathering at tourism sites, it was necessary to stop feeding them.