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 …
Positive action in the New Year sets the tone for an end to bear farming in Vietnam Read More »
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 …
Record prison sentence for rhino horn trafficker in Vietnam Read More »
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 …
On October 26, 2021, three Asiatic black bears were transferred from a bear farm in Long An province to Cat Tien Bear Rescue Center! For years ENV has been communicating directly with this bear owner in efforts to convince him to give up his bears. These efforts included phone calls, postcards, brochures of the bear …
Second to Last Bear Farm in Long An Province Shut Down Read More »
ENV has secured the first-ever confiscation of a caracal from Vietnam’s illegal wildlife trade! Caracals are medium-sized carnivorous wild cats indigenous to central Asia and Africa. This caracal was being kept as an illegal exotic “pet” in Hanoi when it was reported to ENV. The case began when the ENV Wildlife Crime Hotline was contacted …
First-ever Caracal Confiscated from Illegal Wildlife Trade in Vietnam Read More »
Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV) is thrilled to share our latest ENV newsletter: Wildlife Watch, September 2021 Edition. This publication contains ENV’s September activities and achievements from each of our departments combatting Vietnam’s illegal wildlife trade through a wide array of strategies. ENV’s newsletter, Wildlife Watch, will continue to be updated and shared regularly to keep …
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ZHUHAI: Police in this province in South China’s Guangdong region have recently uncovered an animal trafficking scheme involving 8 tons of pangolin scales worth 400 million yuan ($62 million), China Central Television reported. The number of killed pangolins is estimated to be 16,000, taking into account that the scales of one pangolin weigh about 0.5 …
