Over the past years, whenever they receive information about animals in need of rescue, the staff of Vu Quang National Park in the central province of Ha Tinh immediately set out for the rescue mission. They are likened to "unprofessional doctors" who have revived thousands of wild animals and then returned them to the natural habitats.
The northern province of Tuyen Quang has excelled in biodiversity conservation and the protection of rare animals over recent years, contributing to ecosystem preservation and supporting scientific research.
The Management Board of Ben En National Park in the north central province of Thanh Hoa has been working on plans on preserving and developing a number of rare animals with high-economic values in the park in the 2022 – 2024 period, towards conserving rodent species.
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has released a film highlighting health risks from dining out at restaurants that sell wildlife meat, and calling on the community not to support such restaurants, thus reducing the risk of extinction among rare animals and protecting the ecosystem.
Kon Ka Kinh National Park in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai has received a pig-tailed macaque – an endangered and rare species, Director of the park’s Centre for Creature Rescue, Conservation and Development Tran Van Thu said on June 16.
The Centre for Rescue, Conservation and Development of Wild Animals of the Bu Gia Map National Park in the southern province of Binh Phuoc has recently coordinated with forest rangers to return four rare animals to nature.
The animal rescue, conservation and development centre at the Bu Gia Map National Park in the southern province of Binh Phuoc has released into the wild 25 animals so far this year.
The task force of the Vietnam Forest Protection Department and the Forest Protection Sub-department of Region 3 conducted an unannounced check of the country’s largest wildlife market in the Mekong Delta province of Long An on March 15, seizing a number of endangered animals there.
A stump-tailed macaque, a rare and precious animal, has been handed over voluntarily by a local resident to the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park Management Board in central Quang Binh province.
The Con Cuong district People’s Court in the central province of Nghe An has sentenced five local poachers to a total of 13 years and six months in prison for violating regulations on protection of endangered, precious and rare animals.
The Huong Khe District People's Court in the central province of Ha Tinh has recently sentenced six local people to a total of 66 months in prison for violating “regulations on protection of endangered, precious and rare animals”.
Sixteen Vietnamese and foreign conservation organisations have called for more administrative punishments for wildlife crime, given their concern about biodiversity loss as a result of unchecked poaching.
The police on environment crime prevention and fight under the Ministry of Public Security on October 26 detected an illegal detention of rare animals in Loc Ninh district, the southern province of Binh Phuoc.
The management board of Pu Luong Nature Reserve in Bac Thuoc district, north central Thanh Hoa province, has implemented a research project to preserve the Asian black bear and palm civet between 2017 and 2019.
Deer, wild boar, otters, mongooses, monocle cobras and painted storks are among rare and valuable animals recently found in the U Minh Ha National Park, in the southernmost province of Ca Mau.
