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ENV calls on community to join hands to protect tigers

As trading and illegal hunting have seriously diminished the tiger population, Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV) has called on the community to join hands to protect wild tigers.
As trading and illegal hunting haveseriously diminished the tiger population, Education for Nature Vietnam(ENV) has called on the community to join hands to protect wild tigers.

At a press briefing in Hanoi on Mar. 15, Nguyen Thi Van Anh,coordinator of an ENV programme for wildlife protection, announced theinitial results of the survey on tiger caging and trading in Vietnam .

The survey indicated that people’s demand for tiger bones to use asmedicine has reduced the number of tigers in Vietnam and othercountries.

The survey also showed the relations among tiger farms and the illegaltrading of the animal, an overall picture of cross-border tiger tradingand other related activities in Vietnam .

According to the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF), there are only about30 wild tigers left in Vietnam . Hunting, a changing of livingenvironment and fewer sources of food are major reasons for thereduction of the wild tiger population.

ENV said that since 2005, relevant agencies pursued 16 cases of illegaltrading and transport resulting in the seizure of 29 tigers. However,the ENV added, this number was very small in comparison with the totalnumber of tigers believed to be kept on farms in Vietnam and abroad tobe sold to make medicine, which is believed to help strengthen humanbone, improve health and treat other diseases.

Nguyen Thi Van Anh stressed that tiger trading is not only a problemfor the nation, but also an international issue, so that Vietnameseagencies should coordinate with relevant agencies in Laos, Cambodia andThailand and other countries in investigating and prosecuting theleaders of illegal tiger trading.

ENV is the first local non-governmental organisation in Vietnaminvolved in natural and environmental preservation with the aim ofimproving people’s awareness on the environment relating to wildlifeprotection, natural bio systems and climate change./.
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