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 12, 2011
A Vietnamese delegation has finalized a wildlife protection agreement with South Africa focusing on the rhinoceros. Under the agreement, a campaign will be launched against the deep-rooted belief in Vietnam that the endangered creature’s horn is a powerful medicine. Nguyen Trung Kien, member of the delegation and counselor of the Vietnam embassy in South [...]
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January 22, 2011
A team of foreign experts examine the site where the dead rhino was found in Cat Tien National Park on April 29 last year. Investigations into the death of rare Javan rhinoceros found in a Central Highlands park last April reveal that Vietnam’s efforts at wildlife protection are insufficient, a World Wildlife Vietnam official said. [...]
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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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November 21, 2009
The Javan rhinoceros is perhaps the most threatened large mammal in the world, with only two populations known to exist in the wild The World Wildlife Fund for Nature said on Friday it had found the traces of the extremely rare and endangered Vietnamese Javan Rhinoceros, of which no more than a dozen are thought [...]
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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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