On Tuesday, staff and volunteers from the Centre of Biodiversity Conservation (GreenViet) rescued a crab-eating mongoose from a beer can trap in Da Nang's Son Tra Nature Reserve.

Volunteers rescue a crab-eating mongoose from a beer can trap in the Son Tra Nature Reserve today.

GreenViet rescuer Nguyen Thi Huyen Trang told the Viet Nam News that the animal was found with its head stuck in a can near an old helipad on the Son Tra Mountain.

Trang said that she and other volunteers cut the can to rescue the animal before releasing it safely back into nature.

She added that many cans, rubbish and food were littered throughout the reserve by visitors, and the centre's volunteers have to spend hours collecting bags of garbage on Sundays.

According to the GreenViet, the crab-eating mongoose was listed as a least concern species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

The Son Tra Nature Reserve, known for its rich biodiversity, is now home to 1,300 red-shanked doucs, a kind of langur that was declared endangered by the IUCN in 2013.

Thousands of traps had been dismantled by rangers and volunteers during previous two years.

GreenViet has been co-operating with the Frankfurt Zoological Society of Germany, the San Diego Zoo Global of the United States and IUCN to protect the red-shanked douc langur in the Son Tra Nature Reserve

(Source: VNS/ DA NANG Today)