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Bush Meat, Trafficking Decimate Vietnam

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From Vietnam News. Tags: vietnam exotic meats wildlife trafficking bush meat endangered species. Sounds just awful. But the problem is the high demand for these products. In Viet Nam, hunting and trade in wild animals had been alarming, he said.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

10,000 Birds

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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Interpol Makes Arrests in Tiger Smuggling

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A coordinated international law enforcement operation has led to the arrest of 25 individuals suspected of taking part in the illicit trade of tigers, one of the world's most endangered species. Tags: wildlife smuggling tigers interpol asia endangered species.

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Baby Tiger Victim of Wildlife Trade

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Tags: wildlife crime vietnam wildlife trafficking Traditional Chinese Medicine tigers endangered species.

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Edward’s Pheasant

10,000 Birds

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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Newly Found Species Already Endangered

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Tags: vietnam laos endangered species.

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