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Video encourages people to avoid using products from wild animals

On the occasion of World Wildlife Day on March 3, the non-governmental organisation Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV) launched a short film called “Su lua chon sang suot” (A smart choice), to promote the use of modern medicine instead of the consumption of products from wild animals to treat ailments.
Video encourages people to avoid using products from wild animals ảnh 1A screenshot from the ENV short film.
Hanoi(VNA) - On the occasion of World Wildlife Day on March 3, the non-governmentalorganisation Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV) launched a short film called “Sulua chon sang suot” (A smart choice), to promote the use of modern medicineinstead of the consumption of products from wild animals to treat ailments.

ENV DeputyDirector Nguyen Thi Phuong Dung said that, via the film, it is calling for an endto wildlife poaching, trade, and consumption in Vietnam, as these acts causedamage to both nature and human beings.

According to the WorldHealth Organisation (WHO), about 70 percent of infectious diseases affectinghumans over the last 30 years originated from animals, such as HIV/AIDS, avianinfluenza (H5N1), swine flu (H1N1), severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS),Ebola, and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).

ENV has so farworked with the Ministry of Health to step up communications campaigns to raisepublic awareness about the danger of hunting, trading, consuming, and having contactwith wild animals.

It has made greatefforts over the past decade to end the illegal wildlife trade at traditionalmedicine businesses.

Most recently, itsent information to nearly 2,300 shops selling traditional medicines nationwideregarding legal regulations on wildlife, encouraging pharmacists, physicians,and doctors to use herbal medicines to cure diseases./.
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