Located on the Kon Tum Plateau, in the areas of districts Mang Yang, K'Bang, and Đắk Đoa of Gia Lai Province, the biological tourist site Kon Ka Kinh National Park plays a more vital role besides cradling a rich biological diversity of the flora and fauna. The park provides safe habitat to around 1,000 gray-shanked douc langurs (pygathrix cinerea) - the country's largest troop.

Since 2006, experts from the Frankfurt Zoological Society's Viet Nam Primate Conservation Programme initiated a conservation, protection and education programme on the gray-shanked douc langur in the park, a program that is continually undertaken up to the present. The gray-shanked doucs is listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUNC) Red List as one of the world's 25 critically endangered primates. From a handful of  langurs since the beginning of the program, the large number of primates they have accounted for today are swinging freely across five provinces, including Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh, Kon Tum and Gia Lai. Gia Lai's Kon Ka Kinh Park preserves the largest troop, at around 250.

The same experts also confirmed that seven species of the most endangered primates consider the park their home, claiming three kinds of monkey (Macaca leonia, Macaca artoides and Macara mulatta) live in the park along with two species of loris (Nycticebus bengalensis and Nycticebus pygmaeus) and gibbons (Nomascus leucogienys leucogienys)."

Integrated Approach in Preserving the Primates Before the conservation efforts, the primates are popularly hunted for its meat and for traditional medicinal uses. Educating the ethnic communities and raising their awareness on the effects of illegal hunting and logging on these territories has been among the initial yet most important steps in the program. The campaign proved to be effective as today, villagers have shifted their livelihoods to gathering honey, mushrooms and bamboo shoots. In the past eight years, field trips to the park have also been operated to help educate the students on the awareness of endangered primates and on protecting the park. The park's Centre for Education and Environment, together with the Frankfurt Zoological Society has also held conservation modules at seven junior secondary schools on the park's buffer zone.

Informative materials have been reproduced for the students and park guests. Painting contests on the subject of preserving nature is also among the most regularly organized events to help promote the conservation effort. A plan to implement a plantation project to be carried out by Green Viet is also laid out aiming to transform the lives of local people living in the park's buffer zone.