December 3, 2011
An image of the Javan Rhino that is believed to extinct in Vietnam. A traveling exhibition to raise awareness of wildlife protection was launched in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday, targeting 40 secondary schools with more than 20,000 students and teachers in the city. The “SOS traveling exhibition – Education on wildlife product consumption” [...]
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November 27, 2010
Tiger skin displayed for sale in Myanmar, where trade in the animals has reached crisis levels. Conservationists say the densely forested corridor between Thailand and Myanmar is the most crucial conservation zone in the greater Mekong Region. A global summit on wild tigers wrapped up in Russia Wednesday, when all of the participating nations agreed [...]
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January 31, 2010
The Indochinese tiger is only found in the Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia, including Vietnam Indochinaâs big-cat population at âcrisis point,â could vanish by next Year of Tiger, says WWF. Dead tigers turned up around Hanoi last year as if they were nothing more than cheap smuggled goods from China.Hanoi environmental police uncovered a [...]
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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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August 10, 2009
John Sellar is no comic book super hero, but judging by the criminals he deals with as the only policeman at the UN agency against illegal wildlife trade, he could well be one. Russian mafia, Latin American drug lords, suspected rebel or terror groups and crooked Asian diplomats count among poachers of rhinoceros, tigers and [...]
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