January 16, 2012
Chimpanzees at the Saigon Zoo and Botanical Garden in Ho Chi Minh City (Photo: Tuoi Tre). Two chimpanzees were placed on display at the Saigon Zoo and Botanical Garden in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported. The endangered primates came to Vietnam from from a Japanese zoo, with the male weighing 70 [...]
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December 27, 2011
A tiger head is found among many wildlife parts at houses in Ho Chi Minh City Police in Ho Chi Minh City on Monday arrested two locals to investigate their endangered wildlife trade. Bang Tien Quan, 37, on December 13 was caught by police buying a tiger skeleton weighing 9.4 kilograms from Ha Van [...]
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November 11, 2011
The agency of aquatic life protection in the central province of Khanh Hoa on Tuesday released two critically endangered hawksbill sea turtles to the sea, after rescuing them from a trade attempt. The turtles (Eretmochelys imbricate) were submitted to the provincial Agency of Aquatic Resources Exploitation and Protection by Nguyen Quoc Anh Bao, director [...]
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November 11, 2011
One of the five sea turtles being released into the sea Authorities in the south central province of Binh Thuan on Sunday released five endangered sea turtles, previously caught by local fishermen, into the sea. The name of the sea turtle species was not known, but an official at the provincial Department of Agriculture and [...]
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November 7, 2011
Forest rangers in the central province of Quy Nhon on November 2 said they are treating an endangered, injured gray-shanked douc langur (Pygathrix cinerea) monkey, which was kept by a local. According to Tran Duy An, chief of the Forest Ranger Division in Tuy Phuoc District, the local whose identity was not revealed bought the douc in the nearby [...]
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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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August 27, 2011
Two douc langurs among three repopulated to a nature reserve in Ninh Binh Province. Forest management officials from the northern province of Ninh Binh and German zoologists in Vietnam have repopulated three douc langurs born by rescued langurs to a local nature reserve.  The officials planned to return ten of the Delacour’s langurs by the [...]
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July 30, 2011
NGOs can provide information if authorities are brave and willing to take action against well-known criminals An Indochinese tiger, Mi, carries a cub at the Hanoi Zoo. Experts say Vietnam continues to be a regional hub for illegal trade in tiger parts, pushing the creature close to extinction. Ten days before the world observes [...]
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July 28, 2011
The 80-kg green sea turtle was released in the Nui Chua National Park on July 25. An endangered sea turtle, netted by a fisherman, was released back into the sea in the central province of Ninh Thuan Monday. The green sea turtle, which weighs an estimated 80 kilograms, was released in the Nui Chua National [...]
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July 24, 2011
Planned road projects threaten a population of endangered gibbons that could save the species This undated photo handout released by Conservation International shows three northern white-cheeked crested gibbons (Nomascus leucogenys) at an undisclosed location in Vietnam. The lively morning calls of the rare species of gibbon have led to the discovery of the only [...]
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