Community makes concerted efforts to limit decline, extinction of wildlife species
State management and law enforcement agencies, and non-governmental organisations have taken actions to limit the decline and extinction of wildlife species in Vietnam.
Hanoi (VNA) – Statemanagement and law enforcement agencies, and non-governmental organisatiꦐonshave take🎃n actions to limit the decline and extinction of wildlife species in Vietnam.
On June 17, 2022, the last captive bearin the southern province of Binh Phuoc was handed over to a bear rescue centre of Cat Tien National Park.
Lastyear, the northern provinces of Thai Bin⛦h and Ha Nam became the next localitiesin Vietnam to officially put an end to bear bile farming. Notably, HoChi Minh City, which was previously the second largest hotspot of bear bile farming in the country, now only has 13 bears in private facilities.
Asof October 2022, the capital city of Hanoi still recorded the highest number ofbears in captivity nationwide, with 140 bears in private facilities, accountingfor 54.5% of the total number of bears in captivity across the country. Bui Thi Ha, Deputy Director of Education for NatureVietnam (ENV), hoped that in the near future, Hanoi's authorities would takemore decisive actions to step up the elimination of bear captivity activitiesin Hanoi and Phuc Tho outlying district in particular. She also expected that by 2025,Vietnam will successfully end the situation thanks to the efforts of the municipalauthorities.
A monkey is handed over in Thua Thien-Hue .(Photo: VNA)
Also last year, ENV recorded 399 tiger-related violation cases, over 88% of them werediscovered on the cyber space. Withthe support of ENV, competent agencies confiscatedor received the transfer of 2,101 live wild animals, including 97 monkeys, 22bears, 12 tigers, 295 tortoises of different species and many others.
Do Quang Tung, Director of the Ministry ofAgriculture and Rural Development (MARD)’s Endangered Wildlife Conservation Project, said the current legal framework for controlling the exploitation andtrading of wildlife is basically complete, comprehensive, and appropriate forpractical requirements, such as the 2017 Forestry Law and related legaldocuments.
He added that the dissemination of legalregulations and coordination among the stakeholders in legal enforcement andsettlement of violations have been carried out concertedly, resulting in strictpunishments for a number of violations and a significant reduction in demand ofwildlife and their products for food, medicine, and jewelry.
According to ENV’s2022 report, up to 1,247 online advertisements for the saleof wild animals were successfully removed.
Since early 2022, a total of 92 onlinegroups specialised in wildlife trading with 243,336 members have been disabled.
Ha added that 71% of the total 1,509violations detected and reported to the authorities via ENV♓’s hotline havebeen successfully dealt with./.
A meeting to finalise a strategy to raise funds for species conservation in Vietnam was held by the Centre for Nature Conservation and Development in collaboration with the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Agency under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in Hanoi on November 22.
As many as 83 animals of 14 rare species have been released back to the nature in the Bu Gia Map National Park, the southern province of Binh Phuoc, Director of the park’s management board Vuong Duc Hoa said on December 20.
The central province of Thua Thien-Hue has beefed up its local wildlife protection and rescue movement, with many wild animals released back into their natural environment.
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A monkey is handed over in Thua Thien-Hue .(Photo: VNA) 
