Lam Dong, Feb. 24 -- The Public Security Department of the Lam Dong province on February 24 said that officers of Bao Lam 1 Commune Police had received a rare and endangered pangolin voluntarily handed over by a local resident.

Doan Hong Hai, born in 1976 and residing in Hamlet 5, Loc Quang Village, Bao Lam 1 Commune, handed over an adult pangolin in good health, measuring 52cm in length and weighing over 5kg, to the commune police a day earlier.

Initial assessments by authorities indicated that the animal is a rare and endangered wild species subject to protection and listed in the Vietnam Red Data Book.

Hai said he discovered the animal near his house. Aware that it could be a rare and protected species, he decided to inform the loca...