On March 23, 2021, while gardening, Mr. Le Quang Hoa (Yen Trung village, Tan Lam Huong commune, Thach Ha) discovered and caught a pig-tailed monkey.

The information that Mr. Hoa caught the pig-tailed monkey was quickly known to many people, some people in Ha Tinh city offered the price from 4 to 10 million VND to buy back. However, all negotiations were unsuccessful when Mr. Hoa announced that he would hand over the monkey to the functional industry for release to the natural environment.

“Thanks to the propaganda of the local authorities and the forest rangers, we are very aware of the conservation and preservation of rare and rare wildlife. In addition to carefully taking care of the monkey in 3 days of captivity, I reported to the local authorities to have a solution ”- Mr. Hoa shared.

Thach Ha District Forest Protection Department and functional departments have identified a 9 kg pig-tailed monkey, belonging to a group of endangered and rare animals, so it handed over to Vu Quang National Park for release to the wild. At the time of handover, the monkey was in stable health.

It is known that from 2018 up to now, Thach Ha Forest Protection Department has received 6 rare animals including 5 monkeys and 1 turtle individual voluntarily surrendered by the people. Particularly in the first 3 months of 2021, the unit received 2 individuals of pig-tailed monkeys and moldy monkeys from Mr. Le Quang Hoa’s family (Yen Trung village, Tan Lam Huong commune) and Ms. Tran Thi Phuong (Lien Pho village, commune Thach Hoi).

Propaganda and mobilization of people to protect and preserve rare animals has been actively implemented by Thach Ha Forest Protection Department for many years.

On the morning of March 27, fishermen Vo Quang Hoa (Dong Tay Xuan village, Cam Ha commune, Cam Xuyen) released their nets in Cua Nhuong waters and caught a rare sea turtle.

According to authorities, a sea turtle weighing 5.2 kg, a red shell, and a yellow underbelly is a rare animal in the Vietnam Red Book. Anh Hoa has contacted the local authorities to release the sea turtle back to the natural environment. This is considered a beautiful act of local people to conserve the environment.

Fishermen Vo Quang Hoa releases rare sea turtles to the natural environment (photo by Phan Tram).

The voluntary handover of wildlife to the natural environment by local people has made an important contribution to biodiversity conservation efforts. Some even spend money to buy wild animals from hunters and hand them over to the forest rangers. For example, in 2018, on the way home from work, Mr. Nguyen Dinh Tue (living in Thach Linh ward, Ha Tinh city) discovered a resident selling a golden monkey (belonging to group 2B) for 2 million VND, so he purchased to return to the forest rangers.

Director of the National Park Vu Quang Nguyen Danh Ky said: “From the beginning of 2020 up to now, the unit has received about 560 individuals including monkeys, turtles, pythons … from the people. Among the individuals that voluntarily surrendered, there are many animals of high economic value. That shows that, when people’s awareness of protecting wildlife is increasing, the propaganda is more effective ”.

Vu Quang National Park receives monkeys from the Provincial Police Environmental Police Department to release them to the natural environment.

According to the Director of Ha Tinh Forest Protection Department, Hoang Quoc Huan, the propaganda, dissemination and education of the law on the management and protection of endangered wildlife and wild animals has always been paid special attention. and regularly renew the contents and forms in order to raise awareness among civil servants and all walks of life.

Since then, people’s awareness and responsibility for wildlife protection has been raised. In 2019 up to now, the unit has organized 68 deliveries between people, forest rangers and forest owners with a total of 625 individuals; Of which 97 individuals are endangered, precious and rare wildlife species of group IB, IIB, such as: langurs, monkeys, cool-eyed civets, civet civets, hornet python, king cobra, old bird bracken, spoonbill, eagle, turtle; 528 common wild animals such as: Hon, horn, bird …

Weasel coffee or mink coffee is the name of a special coffee, a beverage that is ranked among the rarest in the world.

Experts in this article: Comprehension Exam, PhD student at Huodong University of Science and Technology, China.

Reviewer of this article: Professor Ph.D. Liu Shaoi, Associate Director of the Research Center for Food and Drug Administration at the East China University of Science and Technology, PhD in Food Science from Pennsylvania State University, Postdoc at Kansas State University, United States States.

This type of coffee is found in Indonesia, on the islands of Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi. The word Kopi Luwak is used to refer to a type of seed which is eaten by the spotted civet that eats the fruit of the coffee and then disposed of the feces, dried and processed.

Although the Vietnamese language mentions weasels, the animals involved are civets, not weasels. Meanwhile the name Kopi Luwak comes from the Indonesian word kopi meaning coffee. Luwak is the name of an area on the Java island, as well as the name of a civet that resides there.

The spotted palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus belongs to the Viverridae family), which is scattered in Southeast Asian countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and southern China.

In Vietnam, civets are raised to make this special coffee.

If you’ve ever seen some shows run by PETA and BBC, the stories behind mink coffee are told in great detail. Some cups of mink feces coffee can even be sold for the equivalent of 64 million VND / kg.

Why is there such expensive coffee? Is there any difference in nutrition compared to regular coffee? We will analyze the relevant factors and understand more about the nature of weasel coffee.

Is weasel coffee really made from mink feces?

First of all, the animal that actually produces the marketed mink coffee is not a weasel, which is called a “civet”, or civet coffee in English. It is a very cute animal.

However, mink feces coffee does not use mink waste to directly brew coffee, but it goes through a more elaborate processing process than regular coffee.

The essence of weasel coffee stems from the civet that likes to eat the coffee cherry, the fruit of the coffee tree and the seed in the cherry coffee is the coffee bean that is still fresh on the tree.

In the dung released by the civet, the beans are still intact, but they all undergo a unique fermentation in the civet’s digestive system, which saves a lot of coffee making.

After that, they are picked up and the civet dung is cleaned, dried, and directly roasted to get the finished mink coffee product.

So when it comes to your brewing stage, the civet’s manure has long been removed, and what you use is an ordinary cup of coffee with a slightly unique and very clean taste.

Is the nutritional value of mink coffee high?

According to some scientific studies, the Indonesian civet’s digestive system will destroy the protein in the coffee beans, reducing the bitterness of coffee and increasing the roundness of coffee.

The beans generally undergo fermentation of the outer shell, in the intestines of the civet special bacteria that provide a unique fermentation environment, thereby making the weasel coffee flavor unique. unique, thicker and softer.

The assessment of the modern coffee industry is: Weasel coffee is poor quality coffee

Weasel-based coffee is dubbed the second most expensive coffee in the world, mainly due to the hype of a commercial dealer who packaged a product too ordinary and inflated it to “premium”.

After the animals eat the coffee fruit, the undigested seeds are fermented and then passed out of the body through the intestinal tract. These “natural” processed beans are initially collected from the soil and processed by farmers and kept for themselves “to enjoy”.

But after purposefully requiring commercialization, packaging and beautification by the media, it has now become a specialty drink. The reason that people fall into the trap of traders is nothing but the lack of awareness about high quality authentic coffee.

What flavor of mink coffee?

To describe the taste of mink feces coffee with the words “great aroma” and “masterpiece” will only explain the legend of mink feces coffee.

According to expert Lilly Kubota, communications director of the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA), wrote an article in early 2011 and listed three conclusions:

1, The best mink feces coffee is not as good as the specialty coffee with the lowest score.

2, Genuine Weasel Feces Coffee is produced from a civet locked in a cage.

3.Most of what consumers can buy is counterfeit, because real goods are rare.

Coffee taster Stephen Vicks has published a coffee test report on the coffee website saying, “Two out of the four samples smelled of yeast and phenol respectively. it smells of alcohol, raw oysters, and has a rough feeling “.

It can be seen that consumers buy mink coffee not to buy quality, but to buy advertising gimmicks.

How should we treat mink coffee?

Due to the scarcity of commercial goods, mink coffee has become a sought-after commodity in the international market and is considered a “golden” coffee variety.

Now, for-profit mink coffee traders are no longer satisfied with the small yields that are freely sought from the forest, so in order to increase yields, they have industrially produced by imprisonment. civets are just for feeding the coffee berries and taking their droppings.

But the civet is actually an extremely free-loving creature that has gone on a hunger strike and opposed this brutal captivity, but traders are not afraid to torture the civet for manure in order to obtain a pricey civet coffee. high.

According to the British Daily Mail, in some parts of the Philippines and Indonesia, in order to obtain high-priced civet coffee beans, people ruthlessly locked civets into a cramped and dirty cage, causing the civet. Huong was extremely irritable and and almost depressed.

They are fed large amounts of coffee fruit per day to produce more coffee beans.

The civet faces serious health problems due to lack of vitamins and other nutrients.

Actually, it is just a cup of coffee, but it is the civet’s destiny

The West discovered and promoted mink feces coffee for the first time, and they are now fighting it.

In fact, compared to ourselves as humans, is this civet’s lifestyle synonymous with life imprisonment for free-loving creatures?

And what did the civets do wrong to be treated like this? That’s what we need to know about mink coffee, or to be exact, the coffee made from civet dung.

• According to The Paper, Weixin