Illustrative image (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - The UK Government, in conjunction with the Luang Prabang Film Festival, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), has launched a short-film making contest on illegal wildlife trade, said the UK Embassy in Vietnam on June 12. The contest aims to raise awareness of the public and policy makers of the importance of protecting endangered species, thus increasing specific actions to protect wild animals as well as of devising relevant sustainable and long-term measures for countries along the Mekong River. It is available for all filmmakers in the region, with each entry will not be over 6 minutes. The best filmmaker will be awarded a prize worth 5,000 USD, and be invited to attend the International Conference on Illegal Wildlife Trade in London in October and the Luang Prabang Film Festival in December. Apart from professional filmmakers, students are also encouraged to participate … [Read more...] about Short-film making contest on illegal wildlife trade launched
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Five dead tiger cubs found trafficked by car in central Vietnam
Five dead tiger cubs found in a car's trunk in Nghe An Province on Tuesday. Photo by VnExpress/Nguyen Hai The cubs' dried bodies were planned to be sold to wine brewers for $3,080. Vietnamese police discovered the corpses of five tiger cubs upon inspecting the trunk of a car in the central province of Nghe An on Tuesday afternoon. The four-seater car's occupants Bui Van Hieu, 26, and Hoang Van Thien, 27, said they were transporting the tiger corpses to a local buyer who would have used them to brew wine. The dried cubs weighed a total of over 10 kilograms (22 pounds) and would've been sold for about VND70 million ($3,080), the men said. Police have detained Hieu and Thien, along with Nguyen Van Chinh, 33, who had been escorting the haul along National Highway 7A in a different car. Investigation is continuing. Tigers are facing extinction in Vietnam, where the animals are trafficked for their meat, decorative skin and claws. Their bones are also illegally traded to make a … [Read more...] about Five dead tiger cubs found trafficked by car in central Vietnam
New record of giant muntjac in Vietnam raises conservation hope
Experts capture a female ;arge-antlered muntjac in central Vietnam. Photo by Leibniz IZW, WWF Vietnam, USAID Song Thanh Nature Reserve/via Quang Nam's Forest Management Department Large-antlered muntjac is one of the rarest species in Southeast Asia. Conservationists have gained new hope for conserving the large-antlered muntjac, one of the rarest and most threatened mammal species of Southeast Asia, after its members were recently spotted in central Vietnam. Experts from the World Wide Fund for Nature and officials in Quang Nam Province said on Wednesday that photographs of two members of the animal, one male and one female, were captured in the local jungle by scientists and conservationists of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) and WWF-Vietnam in November 2017. "It is amazing news," said Phan Tuan, Director of Quang Nam's Forest Management Department. "The two individuals are both mature and of reproductive age. These images prove that the … [Read more...] about New record of giant muntjac in Vietnam raises conservation hope
Global Policy Journal: Vietnam may become model of anti-IUU fishing
Illustrative image (Source: VNA) New York (VNA) – The US’s Global Policy Journal website has said Vietnam may become a model for ASEAN countries in fighting illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. An article published by the website on May 9 said the threat of a bad report card from the European Union (EU) has alarmed more than 30,000 Vietnamese commercial trawlers. It quoted Tony Long, former Director of the World Wildlife Fund’s European Policy Office and senior fellow of the Global Government Institute, as saying that the EU carding system to drive out illegal fishing is showing it has teeth, adding that countries are terrified that the ultimate sanction, the red card, imposes potentially enormous financial sanctions and significant risks. The article said, citing source as the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors (VASEP), that fishing is a cornerstone of Vietnam’s economy and since 2006, the nation has been globally … [Read more...] about Global Policy Journal: Vietnam may become model of anti-IUU fishing
Financial sector helps boost transition for low carbon economy: experts
Vietnam’s financial sector needs to play a key role in the transitional efforts to develop a low-carbon, climate-resilient, economy through re-orienting investment to more sustainable projects, while accounting for environmental and social risks, experts have suggested. VCCI Secretary General Nguyen Quang Vinh at the workshop - Photo: NDO Financial and environmental experts gathered at an international workshop on the theme of “Sustainable Finance on Climate and Energy,” which opened in Hanoi on March 29, to discuss measures to boost the financial sector’s activities in promoting Vietnam’s tangible results on environmental and sustainable policy goals. The event was jointly held by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), the Vietnam Banking Association, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the world’s leading conservation organisation, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in Vietnam. According to experts, climate change will … [Read more...] about Financial sector helps boost transition for low carbon economy: experts