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ENV staff are working hard today to send letters to 490 bear farmers all over Vietnam.  

On December 12th, a Vietnamese citizen contacted the Endangered Primate Rescue Center (EPRC) to report about a grey-shanked douc langur that he obtained after seeing it for sale in Phu Yen province two days prior to reporting the case.  

Yen Thanh district, in Nghe An province, is a known hotspot for tiger farming in Vietnam, and is thus an ENV target for awareness raising activities; providing communities which are situated in hotspots with information about wildlife conservation is an important part of the solution to wildlife crime.  

ENV has exposed a bear killing case this morning, December 13.  

This afternoon, around 100 freshmen from Hanoi University of Mining and Geology attended ENV’s Talk about wildlife consumption.  

Nearly 100 Environmental Police officers from districts throughout Hanoi participated in a law enforcement training course aimed at strengthening investigation skills, understanding of laws relevant to wildlife protection, and species identification.    

With the purpose of raising awareness amongst young people, ENV cooperated with ‘Vietnamese Student’ magazine to develop a special regular feature about wildlife conservation.  

Today, ENV and a crew of local and international volunteers took part in ENV’s fourth ever wildlife blitz event. Together, 25 volunteers were divided into small groups to inspect restaurants, bars and other businesses to look for signs which advertised illegal wildlife products and examine menus for wildlife ‘specialities’, before returning to report back and

A report on ENV’s May 2013 campaign to address bear bile advertisements on the internet successfully resulted in removal of nearly every violation.  

Online advertisements for wildlife products are still a major problem, and so ENV has been conducting an Internet research campaign with the aim of removing these adverts and stopping this illegal activity.