Thua Thien Hue province, May 25-26, 2023, Wildlife Conservation Society - Viet Nam Program (WCS Viet Nam) in collaboration with the University of Law, Hue University (HUL), and the People’s Committee of Khe Tre town, Thuong Lo Commune and Thuong Nhat Commune, Nam Dong District, Thua Thien Hue province, organized 2 outreach events on the “Legal framework for wildlife protection” at these local areas. These events were conducted as follow up activities of the training course “Enhancing the participation of social organizations in wildlife protection in Viet Nam” organized by WCS Viet Nam and HUL in November 2022 where participants worked together to develop action plans aiming at increasing the participation of the community in buffer zones of Bach Ma National Park (Bach Ma NP) in wildlife protection.
More than 100 participants who are representatives of leaders of People’s Committee, local social organizations, residence groups, wildlife farming facilities, restaurants and local people in Khe Tre town, Thuong Lo Commune and Thuong Nhat Commune attended the outreach events.
Group photo in the outreach event, Khe Tre, May 25, 2023
With the aim of encouraging local communities not committing to illegal hunting, trading, transporting, advertising, storing and consuming wildlife, the guest speakers from the Forest Protection Department of Bach Ma NP and Thua Thien Hue Province (Thua Thien Hue FPD), and representative of local authorities, police of town/commune updated the situation of violations against wildlife protection regulations in Bach Ma NP, identification of common violated species, especially endangered and rare animals being resided in Bach Ma NP. They also introduced a summary of legal framework on wildlife protection, as well as emphasized sanctions applied for violations against wildlife protection regulations, especially illegal possession, and use of weapons, explosives, supporting tools, and homemade guns to hunt wildlife.
Reporter from Thua Thien Hue Provincial Forest Protection Department, Khe Tre, May 25, 2023
At the end of the outreach events, the representative of the People’s Committee from Khe Tre town, Thuong Lo Commune, and Thuong Nhat Commune assigned tasks to local social organizations to spread the message of wildlife protection in the community activities, encourage local people to comply with wildlife protection regulations as well as detect and report wildlife-related violations and crimes. By doing so, they will proactively contribute to the conservation of biodiversity in the Bach Ma NP.
The speech of the local authorities on wildlife conservation, Khe Tre, May 25, 2023
This activity was implemented within the framework of the project “Disrupting the illegal wildlife supply chain in Asia through strengthening partnerships between the government and civil society to increase the effectiveness of Government action” - Partners Against Wildlife Crime funded by the European Union (EU).