January 3, 2012
Leeches have been spreading rapidly in Ho Chi Minh City ’s Hoc Mon District. Locals began breeding them based on demand from China , but dumped them in local fields and other areas after the main buyer closed shop three months ago. Vietnam’s agriculture ministry has issued a ban on the breeding of leeches [...]
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December 12, 2011
A moon bear in a cage at a bear bile farm in the southern province of Binh Duong in a handout photo taken November 29, 2011. The Hong Kong-based Animals Asia Foundation has transported 14 moon bears voluntarily handed over by the owner of a bear farm in the southern province of Binh Duong to [...]
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November 21, 2011
Pu Mat National Park and the Pu Huong and Pu Hoat nature reserves are the core zones of the UNESCO-recognized Western Nghe An Biosphere Reserve, at 1.3 million hectares the largest such reserve in Southeast Asia. The park, whose name means high slope in the language of the Thai tribe, is located in the [...]
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October 31, 2011
If the current state of zero accountability for wildlife protection continues, other species will follow the rhino to extinction Participants watch projected images including of smuggled rhino horns (R) seized during a press conference on the launch of a rhino population survey report in Vietnam in Hanoi on October 25. A critically endangered species [...]
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October 25, 2011
A Hanoian Renaissance Man has run Vietnam’s only ‘five-star’ pet hotel for 40 years A receptionist receives a pet dog to the hotel Yes, there’s a hotel for cats and dogs in Hanoi. And yes, it’s called Hotel Cho Meo (hotel for cats and dogs). Seventy-one-year-old Nguyen Bao Sinh has devoted the last 40 [...]
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October 23, 2011
Schoolgirl’s death should spotlight cruelty of animal captivity, experts say This circus elephant killed an 11-year-old girl in Lao Cai Province. Experts say animals suffer a lot of stress in captivity and should live freely in a sanctuary for the rest of their lives. There was an empty chair at the weekly meeting of [...]
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September 22, 2011
Veterinarians try to sedate a badly injured white rhino after poachers sawed off its horn on the Aquila Game Reserve in Touws River, some 180 Km North of Cape Town, in August 2011. China, Vietnam and Thailand, where rhinoceros horns are used for supposed medicinal properties, need to match South Africa’s efforts to end a [...]
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September 10, 2011
Thai authorities arrested two men as they attempted to smuggle 120 dogs to Vietnam on Tuesday, according to the Bangkok Post. Civil volunteers stopped two pickup trucks carrying fertilizer sacks containing the dogs, 31 of which had suffocated, at Pho Sai village near the Mekong River in Nakhon Phanom province. The volunteers, who are [...]
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July 15, 2011
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has listed the Red-eared slider as an invasive species. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has issued a list of 33 invasive species of plants and animals found in Vietnam. In a new circular released last week, the ministry defined invasive species as those invading the habitat of or [...]
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May 4, 2011
File photo of three female chimpanzees at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney. Chimpanzees are self-aware and can anticipate the impact of their actions on the environment around them, an ability once thought to be uniquely human, according to a study released Wednesday. The findings, reported in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, challenge assumptions [...]
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