Critter News
MARCH 22, 2010
From Vietnam News. Dr Scott Roberton, head of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), said that hunting wild animals for meat and trafficking had been happening in many countries, especially developing ones. In Viet Nam, hunting and trade in wild animals had been alarming, he said. Sounds just awful.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2024
Below is a quotation directly from this paper by the Monitor Conservation Research Society: “Trade data from the range countries of Thailand and Vietnam and from Indonesia and USA, both non-range countries, revealed 10,841 Black-throated Laughingthrushes in trade, across 762 visits to 51 markets between 1966 and 2019.
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Critter News
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
The wild Saola, which resembles antelopes and was only discovered in 1992, is already near extinction due to hunting. Tags: vietnam laos endangered species. Way to go humans! Another notch to add to our belt!
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2012
It has recently been reclassified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List; this category is reserved for only the most threatened species in the world. It has not been seen in its small home range in central Vietnam since around 2000. Conservationists searched intensively in 2011 but found none.
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