Education for Nature – Vietnam (ENV) has released the ENV’s National Counter Wildlife Trafficking (CWT) Priorities Brief 2024, identifying 12 critical priorities for key stakeholders in their efforts to fight the illegal wildlife trade in Vietnam.
In 2016, ENV first identified ten critical actions that Vietnam should take to stop the illegal wildlife trade and positively impact the future of Vietnam’s endangered wildlife, as well as to reduce and ultimately eliminate Vietnam’s role in global wildlife trafficking.
Since then, the National Counter Wildlife Trafficking (CWT) Priorities Brief has been updated and produced every year, providing a strategic roadmap to guide collaborative efforts to protect endangered species and reduce wildlife crime in Vietnam, and tracking progress in Vietnam’s efforts to tackle the illegal wildlife trade for the past eight years.
In 2024, ENV has identified 12 urgent actions that Vietnam should take, including:
1. Take down major international trafficking networks and their leaders
2. Investigate major seizures at ports to ultimately identify, arrest, and prosecute the owner behind these shipments
3. Eradicate corruption
4. Prevent criminal behavior through establishing effective deterrents
5. Address laundering of wildlife and strengthen protection for Vietnam’s biodiversity controls of commercial through the issuance of a “clean list” of species viable for farming
6. Develop one overarching law on non-commercial/conservation facilities
7. Tackle tiger trafficking in Vietnam, especially in Nghe An province
8. Pull the plug on wildlife crimes on the internet
9. Finish the job: Ending bear bile farming in Vietnam and closing down all bear farms in the nation’s capital
10. Arrest the growth of the exotic species trade
11. Phasing out illegal bird trade step by step
12. Reduce consumer demand for wildlife through active government-led information campaigns on TV, radio, in the media, and on the internet
Until next time,
The ENV Team.