Education for Nature Vietnam
News Brief (E158, 24th - 30th March, 2006)
Illegal wildlife trade
Da Nang City – On March 27th, Lien Chieu district rangers stopped a bus transporting five Malayan porcupines (Hystrix brachyura) and one civet. The driver admitted that the wildlife was purchased in Da Nang city and was being transported north to sell. The Lien Chieu district’s Forest Protection Department (FPD) confiscated the animals and impounded the vehicle pending further investigation.
(Sai Gon Liberated issue 10330 dated March 29th 2006; People’s Police issue 352 dated March 30th 2006; Lien Chieu district’s FPD)
Ha Tinh Province – On March 27th, the Vu Quang district police stopped a car and confiscated 10 bags of pangolins (Manis javanica) weighing a total of 300 kilograms. The police temporarily impounded the car and held the driver pending further investigation.
(Law issue 76 dated March 29th 2006)
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Galliformes stamp set to be launched
On April 1st, a stamp set depicting Vietnam’s threatened and endemic partridges and pheasants (Galliformes) will be launched by the Ministry of Post and Telecommunication of Vietnam. In consultation with ornithological experts from the BirdLife International Vietnam, the Ministry selected five Galliformes for the new stamp set. They are the Orange-necked Partridge (Arborophila davidi), Edwards’s Pheasant (Lophura edwardsi), Vietnamese Pheasant (Lophura hatinhensis), Germain’s Peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron germaini) and Crested Argus (Rheinardia ocellata). All five species, except for the Orange-necked Partridge, are listed on Decree 48 and have small populations that are declining because of habitat loss and fragmentation, and hunting.
(News Release of Birdlife International dated 28th March 2006)
Updates from ENV’s Wildlife Trade Hotline 18001522
On March 14th 2006, a man from Khanh Hoa province called ENV’s Wildlife Trade Hotline (1800 1522) to report a loris he observed in captivity. The man also informed the Ninh Hoa district’s FPD of the case. Rangers seized and released the loris into Cat Minh Phuoc forest on the same day.
(Education for Nature – Vietnam)
Links to environmental articles (Vietnamese)
Vietnam will become a waste dump
http://www.monre.gov.vn/monreNet/default.aspx?tabid=209&ItemID=12585
Vietnam listed among ten hot spots for pine conservation
http://www.monre.gov.vn/monreNet/default.aspx?tabid=209&ItemID=12590
Dac Lac Province – seriously increasing wildlife trade and transport http://www.monre.gov.vn/monreNet/default.aspx?tabid=209&ItemID=12567
Illegal industrial waste import must be under tighter regulation
http://www.monre.gov.vn/monreNet/default.aspx?tabid=209&ItemID=12527
Ca Mau province facing the danger of forest fires
http://www.monre.gov.vn/monreNet/default.aspx?tabid=209&ItemID=12524
Dioxin storage and its serious impacts on Vietnam’s environment and people.
http://www.monre.gov.vn/monreNet/default.aspx?tabid=209&ItemID=12511
Polluted water and air in some major economic areas in the North.
http://www.monre.gov.vn/monreNet/default.aspx?tabid=209&ItemID=12506
Fate of protected birds
http://www.monre.gov.vn/monreNet/default.aspx?tabid=209&ItemID=12504
STOP THE WILDLIFE TRADE
If you observe wildlife being displayed, sold, transported, or kept illegally in captivity, notify your local Forest Protection Department or contact the ENV Wildlife Trade Hotline
1800-1522
YOU can make a difference!
For more information, please contact:
Nguyen Phuong Dung
Education for Nature - Vietnam (ENV)
No.2/C5 tap the Dai hoc Ngoai Thuong, pho Chua Lang, Ha Noi.
Tel/Fax: 04-775 3685
env@fpt.vn or communication.env@fpt.vn