Indonesia uses hi-tech to fight animal trafficking
Non-governmental organisations (NGO) on animal protection in Indonesia are applying high technology to combat trafficking of rare and endangered species.
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Non-governmental organisations (NGO) on animal protection in Indonesia are applying high technology to combat trafficking of rare and endangered species.
A camera trap has caught the large-antlered muntjac, one of the rarest and most threatened mammal species of Southeast Asia, for the first time in the central province of Quang Nam.
Travel site Thrillist has included Cat Co 2 beach on Cat Ba island, northern Hai Phong city, and Thom beach on Phu Quoc island, southern Kien Giang province, on its list of the best seaside getaways in Vietnam.
An artistic programme was held in Hanoi on May 22 to celebrate a quarter century of action for biodiversity, marking the 25th anniversary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
A biodiversity conservation partnership forum was held in Hanoi on May 22 by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Vietnam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment and CropLife Vietnam.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) launched the USAID Saving Species project in Hanoi on May 11.
A marine project is underway in the central province of Quang Nam to save sea turtles as part of a local effort to protect the biodiversity in Cu Lao Cham (Cham Island) Marine Protected Area (MPA).
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong has paid a four-day trip to the European Union and Belgium to boost cooperation and share Vietnam’s efforts to fight IUU fishing.
The People’s Court of Ha Dong district in Hanoi on March 20 handed down a jail sentence of 13 months on Nguyen Mau Chien for smuggling 36kg of rhino horn, according to the Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV).
The Endangered Primate Rescue Centre in the Cuc Phuong National Park is run by enthusiastic experts who have overcome many problems over the past 20 years.
Sun Group inaugurated a sea cable car route in An Thoi town, Phu Quoc island district, Mekong delta Kien Giang province, with the aim of serving tourists on Tet festival which is several days left.
Nearly 260,000 tourists came to Phu Quoc island in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang in January 2018, a year-on-year rise of 51 percent.
A wild monkey and a pygmy loris were recently handed over to the Wildlife Rescue and Protection Centre at the Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park in the central province of Quang Binh.
Wildlife protection has become stricter under policies outlined in amendments to the Penal Code that took effect on January 1, said Lieutenant General, Associate Professor Tran Van Do, former Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme People’s Court and Chief Justice of the Central Military Court.
The central province of Binh Dinh plans to spend 24.5 billion VND (1.09 million USD) on a project to preserve biodiversity by 2025.
16 organisations in wildlife protection in Vietnam signed a letter calling for strict trial of Nguyen Mau Chien, the suspected mastermind of a trans-national rhino horn trafficking ring.
The demand for ornamental fish in the country is large but fish breeders in HCM City have not fully exploited this market because of their small scale of production.
Forest rangers in Quang Binh province detained a man who was carrying two stripe-headed black langurs, listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as an endangered species.
