VietNamNet Bridge - As a hotspot for wildlife trafficking and consumption since the late 80s, Vietnam is facing a risk of depletion of biodiversity.

VietNamNet Bridge - Reporters posing as customers who want to buy wildlife to keep as pets or to have a party were able to easily access restaurants and refrigerators full of wild animal meat recently. 

VietNamNet Bridge - A man posts a photo of himself with two plucked hornbills (Bucerotidae), asking if anyone wants to join him to have a party with the birds. Other men show via livestream how they slaughter a monkey.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese laws impose heavy sanctions on wildlife trafficking, but many violations still occur.

VietNamNet Bridge - To obtain wild animals to sell to restaurants, poachers venture into forests and natural reserves, willing to fire on forest rangers.

VietNamNet Bridge - The legal provision that breeding elephants could be subject to court proceedings has raised controversy.

Since 1994, when Vietnam joined the Convention on Biological Diversity, the government has been making investments in human and financial resources to implement its commitments and protect the country’s biodiversity.

The members of the Dak Lak Elephant Conservation Center are all “amateurs” as they were never professionally trained to take care of elephants. However, their love for and understanding of the animals is well known. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Many Vietnamese believe that eating wild animal meat on the first days of the lunar year will bring good luck. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Tigers, weighing up to hundreds of kilograms, are brought to Vietnam from other countries, especially Laos, and go through customs agencies’ examinations.

VietNamNet Bridge - In recent years, many HCMC residents have decided to breed crocodiles and several wildlife species as a solution to escape poverty.

Ignoring the call to protect wildlife and the warning about punishment of wildlife traffickers, numerous restaurants and tourism sites serving wild animal meat have opened in Dak Lak province.

The world’s second largest population of the endangered Delacour’slangur primate has recently been discovered by conservation NGO, Fauna & Flora International, giving fresh hope for one of the planet’s rarest species.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Highland Safari with a total area of 490 hectares will be built in Lac Duong district in Lam Dong province with an investment of VND1,000 billion (nearly $50 million).

 The Nature Conservation Zone in the southern province of Dong Nai confirmed the death of another bull yesterday.

VietNamNet Bridge – When in Tien Giang Province, the gateway to the Mekong Delta, tourists should give themselves a reason to drop by Binh Duc Commune in Chau Thanh District to take a close look at different snake species

VietNamNet Bridge - Billions of dong have been spent on food for pangolins seized in wildlife trafficking cases. However, the animals have died because they cannot live in captivity.

 The Education for Nature – Vietnam (ENV) has initiated a “zero tolerance” policy on illegal hunting, trading and use of pangolins – which are on the brink of extinction.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many wild animals discovered in trafficking cases have died at rescue centers because of the delays caused by complicated provisions in the 2013 Criminal Procedure Code.

The Nghe An Province's environmental crimes division said this morning that it has detained a man for allegedly trafficking monkeys following a tip-off.