April 2014

The Vietnam Fatherland Front is an integral part of the political system of Vietnam, holding a very important role in terms of social and political unity, social development and national defense. It is seen as the main organization which represents the people and encourages the participation and mobilization of the public in social, political and spiritual […]

ENV has found that the support of the faculties at the universities ENV cooperates with is key in ensuring a successful program; if the lecturers promote and attend the program, many more students also participate. However, one lecturer, Ms Nga at Binh Duong University in southern Vietnam, has taken her commitment to wildlife protection one

Within the first first months of 2014, ENV banners, displays, stickers, and flyers, all urging the public to eliminate the demand for wildlife products and fight wildlife crime, have infiltrated dozens of locations all over Vietnam, from primary schools, secondary schools, and universities to markets and car showrooms. In the past couple of weeks, ENV

This morning, more than 200 high school students in Phuc Tho district (a bear farming hotspot) joined ENV’s fun bear protection program.  

Nowadays, the consumption of rhino horn is seen as a demonstration of wealth, exclusively reserved for those who can afford it. As Vietnam has seen a boom in economic development in the past couple of decades, the number of potential consumers has rapidly increased and are directly fuelling a rise in rhino poaching in Africa. Using

April 17, ENV’s outreach team held a rare wildlife trade presentation in English, at Thang Long University in Hanoi, whose English club had invited us to speak. Whilst we had reservations about whether the students would fully understand all of the information and be inspired by our messages in a different language, we needn’t have

ENV’s Wildlife crime Unit (WCU) has brightened our day today when they reported the current results of their ongoing campaign to remove wildlife advertisements from the internet: they have now managed to secure the removal of 849 of 1039 (81%) advertisements involved in our current internet campaign. Thanks to the hard work of the WCU’s

ENV uses a wide variety of outreach methods to urge the public not to consume wildlife products and to report wildlife crime to the authorities or the ENV hotline, such as our regular slots on the Voice of Vietnam national radio station. Because of this campaign, one hotline caller far away in rural mountainous province

ENV is delighted to report our biggest result from a volunteer-led event so far: Last Friday Nghe An Volunteer Clubs managed to gather a HUGE 3779 pledges to say‘no’ to bear bile at Vinh University.