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 …
New ENV Newsletter Highlights September 2021 Achievements Read More »
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 …
Education for Nature – Vietnam (ENV) would like to present the first ENV Wildlife Crime Bulletin of 2021. In addition to a list of wildlife crime cases and wildlife criminal prosecutions, this issue includes the following wildlife crime highlights: A Blemish Amidst Progress: Lack of Arrests and Prosecutions Following Major Seizures at Our Ports Macaques Are Not Pets Ending Bear Farming in Vietnam: 2020’s Progress and 2021’s Challenges …
ENV released Wildlife Crime Bulletin Issue 01.2021 Read More »
ENV congratulates Nghe An provincial government and law enforcement authorities on their most recent successes against tiger trafficking criminals in the province. On August 1, 2021, Nghe An Environment Police stopped a vehicle and discovered 7 live tiger cubs being illegally trafficked, resulting in 2 subjects arrested who stated they were hired by an unidentified …
A major breakthrough in combatting illegal tiger trafficking in Nghe An Read More »
Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV) has just released its newest Public Service Announcement (PSA), “When Rhinos Lose Their Face, Consumers Lose Face Too” a short film that emphasizes how respect is earned through honorable acts, not by trying to impress others with rhino horn. In this comedic film, the protagonist is a young, ambitious businessman …
Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV) debuts the newest Public Service Announcement (PSA), Bear Karma, shinning a light onto the dark reality of Vietnamese bear bile farms which keep modern-day Vietnam bound to adverse practices of the past. Confined, confused, and completely helpless, the PSA opens as a bear bile user must now endure the extraction of his own …
You Get What You Give: Give Bears a Better Life and Receive the Same Read More »
An urgent call for action to end the illegal trade of douc langurs (genus Pygathrix) This is an urgent call for action to end the illegal trade of douc langurs (genus Pygathrix). There are three species of douc langur. All are critically endangered: the Red-shanked Douc langur (Pygathrix nemaeus); the Grey-shanked Douc Langur (Pygathrix cinerea); …
The Illegal Trade of Endangered Douc Langurs in Vietnam and Across its Borders Read More »
