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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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 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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December 19, 2009
A rhinoceros shot dead in Zimbabwe With Vietnamese believing rhino horns have magical medicinal properties and willing to pay big money for them, the giant animal is being driven to extinction. Nguyen Van Lam, a former deputy head of the Government Office, resigned in July 2006 after he was found to have accepted cash as [...]
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October 7, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The World Wildlife Fund for Nature Viet Nam, in co-operation with central provinces, recently launched a project to protect saola and other endemic hoofed mammals Saola, along with two species of small deer, are incredibly rare species that were discovered by scientists in the 1990’s.The project is expected to be implemented from this [...]
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August 13, 2009
A roadside stall selling wildlife meat in the central Da Nang City. Vietnamâs voracious appetite for wild meat is pushing several rare species to extinction, experts have warned. The protection and preservation of wildlife in Vietnam should be prioritized, they urged at a conference Wednesday, calling for enforcement of strict measures against illegal trade in [...]
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July 14, 2009
Hundreds of hectares of protected forest in Quang Nam Province in central Vietnam are being cut down. The alarming deforestation is not only posing a threat to water sources, but also the existence of the gray-shanked douc. A large tree illegally cut down by lumberjacks. LookAtVietnam – Hundreds of hectares of protected forest in Tam [...]
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July 3, 2009
A soldadinho-do-araripe, a bird from the family of Manakins is seen in Brasilia. The soldadinho-do-araripe is one of the species in critical danger of extinction. The world’s paramount authority on species loss warned Thursday that pledges to roll back the threat to biodiversity by 2010 were running into the sand. The goal set by UN [...]
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April 24, 2009
Cat Tien National Park faces the risk of losing its last few rhinoceroses, with a proposed hydropower plant set to further shrink their habitat, most of which has already been lost to human encroachment. Pham Huu Khanh, deputy director of the park, said there are only three to five of the mammals left in the [...]
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February 21, 2009
The world has lost Manx in the Isle of Man, Ubykh in Turkey and last year Alaska’s last native speaker of Eyak, Marie Smith Jones, died, taking the aboriginal language with her. Of the 6,900 languages spoken in the world, some 2,500 are endangered, the UN’s cultural agency UNESCO said Thursday as it released its [...]
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