Education for Nature – Vietnam (ENV) would like to present our first ENV Wildlife Crime Bulletin of 2022. This issue includes the following wildlife crime highlights:• Targeting major trafficking networks• Clean list: a simple solution to address abuse in the commercial wildlife farming industry• The rise of internet crime: only strict punishment can deter online …
Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV) released its latest Public Service Announcement (PSA), “Reporting to the ENV Wildlife Crime Hotline: 1800-1522”. It is an animation, beginning with a member of a public seeing live wildlife illegally in captivity, and ending with the animal being safely relocated to a sanctuary.
In March 2022, Education for Nature – Vietnam (ENV) re-released the Vietnam Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle (TFT) Identification Book, including information on two new species, updates on the maps of species’ distributions, updates on species’ conservation status and recently introduced wildlife protection laws. Click here for the Turtle ID Book This book serves as a …
Hanoi, June 13, 2022 – Today, in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), and with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman joining, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a new project to help Vietnam control the increasingly serious wildlife trafficking situation. The $15 million, five-year project, called Saving …
ENV is pleased to release our first newsletter in 2022, offering you all the key updates from the first quarter of this year. Our Wildlife Watch newsletter provides statistics, stories, events, and key wildlife trade developments which took place from January to March. This issue covers our efforts to reduce ivory and rhino horn crime, …
ENV launched a new outreach event focused on encouraging the public not to use traditional medicine (TM) made from wildlife. The new event is the first of many that will be held in major cities throughout Vietnam in the coming year. Volunteers from ENV’s Hanoi Wildlife Protection Club hosted the event, held at Lotte Mart …
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Major transfer of 9 bears in Binh Duong and an instruction from Hanoi People’s Committee to combat wildlife crimes and bear farming in Hanoi Today, nine bears were transferred from the farms and facilities of three bear owners in Binh Duong province, Vietnam. This event marks the culmination of years of collaboration by ENV, the …
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Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV) is thrilled to share our latest newsletter to round off the year, highlighting the most important news and achievements from November and December in, Wildlife Watch, Nov/Dec 2021 Edition. This issue covers the most noteworthy prosecutions, updates on the fight against the turtle trade, successes in battling wildlife cybercrime, progress …
A subject in Hanoi was sentenced to 14 years in prison for attempting to traffic rhino horn through Noi Bai Airport. This was a landmark case, being the longest prison sentence ever handed out in Vietnam for such crimes. Do Minh Toan made falsified digital signatures to avoid custom checks whilst bringing in the 55 …
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Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV) is excited to share all the key updates from our work with you in our latest ENV newsletter: Wildlife Watch, October 2021 Edition. This issue features some of our latest viral adverts and crime deterrence films, our successes in shutting down online wildlife markets, our concerns around tiger farms and …
