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Urgent Research to Safeguard the Javan Rhino in Vietnam
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World Wide Fund for Nature
HOTSPOT
Indo-Burma
LOCATION
AMOUNT
US$16,166
DATES
Dec 2009
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Dec 2010
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Project Overview Overview
CEPF Strategic Direction Strategy
HOTSPOT
Indo-Burma
LOCATION
AMOUNT
US$16,166
DATES
Dec 2009
-
Dec 2010

Intensively survey all suitable habitat of Javan Rhinoceros in the Cat Loc sector of Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam, through a combination of video camera traps and systematic dung surveys with detector dogs. DNA and hormone analysis of dung will help to provide a population estimate, and information on whether males are able to reproduce and whether females are pregnant or receptive to breeding.

Strategic Direction: 1 Safeguard priority globally threatened species in Indochina by mitigating major threats