(June 21, 2023) Ho Chi Minh City, June 20-21 and 22-23, 2023, Wildlife Conservation Society - Viet Nam Program (WCS Viet Nam) in collaboration with Ho Chi Minh City University of Law (HCMULAW) and Banking Academy of Viet Nam (BAV) organized two training workshops on “Identifying illicit financial flow from illegal wildlife trade”. These events aimed at providing anti-money laundering (AML) staff of banks and non-banking financial institutions skills to detect, analyze  and report suspicious tra...

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(June 14, 2023) Ha Noi, June 08, 2023, Wildlife Conservation Society - Viet Nam Program (WCS Viet Nam) organized a consultation meeting on “Workplan of the Wildlife Crime Leadership Initiative (WCLI)”. Ms. Hoang Bich Thuy, Country Director of WCS Viet Nam delivered the opening speech, Ha Noi, June 2023 Since 2018, WCS has designed and launched WCLI Program in Viet Nam and Indonesia, the first long-term leadership program aimed at cultivating government leaders in counter-wildlife...

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(May 18, 2023) Ha Nam, May 16-17, 2023, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) - Viet Nam Program in collaboration with Sub-Department of Cultivation, Plant Protection and Forest Protection (Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Ha Nam province) organized a series of 2 community outreaches on: “Guiding the application of regulations on management of wildlife and other forest products” in Phu Ly city and Ly Nhan district, Ha Nam province. Delegates participated in the communication ...

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(March 02, 2023) Supreme People's Court announces 07 case laws  On February 24, 2023, in Decision No. 39/QD-CA dated February 24, 2023, the Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court announced 07 case laws approved by the Justice Council of the Supreme People's Court. In which, there is one case law related to wildlife: Case law No. 58/2023/AL on the circumstances of penalty framing at point c, clause 3, Article 244 (crimes of violating regulations on protection of endangered, and rare speci...

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(November 09, 2022) Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) - Viet Nam Program in collaboration with the Faculty of Broadcasting (FoB), the Academy of Journalism and Communication organized on-field training for future journalists. At the launching of the program, from November 4 to 6, 2022 in Ninh Binh, WCS and FoB organized an intensive training course for 18 students majoring in journalism and communication from the Academy of Journalism and Communication; School of Journalism and Communication (University of S...

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(January 01, 2023) On December 28-30, 2022, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) - Viet Nam Program in collaboration with the Forest Protection Department (FPD) Region III organized a training on “The standard operating protocols in reducing risks of zoonotic disease transmission during counter-wildlife trafficking enforcement operations in Viet Nam.” Introduction about the standard operation protocol, Ho Chi Minh city, December 2022 The program is designed to provide frontline law enforcement...

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(December 27, 2022) On December 22-23, 2022, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) - Viet Nam Program in collaboration with Department of Legal Affairs (Department 14), Supreme People's Procuracy (SPP) of Viet Nam, and People's Procuracy of Ho Chi Minh City organized a training workshop on "Instruction of using Point to Prove  guide and digital evidence in handling wildlife-related cases". The program is designed to improve the capacity of investigators and prosecutors of People's Procuracy...

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(December 27, 2022) On December 13, 2022, the Wildlife Conservation Society - Viet Nam program (WCS Viet Nam) organized a 2022 review meeting, and partnership building and planning for 2023 with the participation of more than 30 delegates, who are representatives from WCS’s partners, including wildlife conservation authorities, law enforcement and judicial agencies, law and financial training and research institutions, and judiciary’s media agencies that have been and will be working closely with WCS Vi...

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(December 09, 2022) Ha Noi, December 8, 2022, WCS Viet Nam in collaboration with Banking Academy of Viet Nam (BAV) organized a Consultation workshop with participation of more than 40 representatives from financial institutions and law enforcement agencies from central level and some hot-spots of illegal wildlife trade (IWT) including Ha Noi, Quang Ninh, and Da Nang, along with other conservation NGOs, and research and training institutions on banking, law and police. The assessment and the workshop were conducted ...

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(December 06, 2022) On December 6, 2022, in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) - Viet Nam Program in collaboration with Ho Chi Minh City’s Prosecutors professional training school (HPS) organized a workshop on  “Enhancing multi-agency collaboration in financial information sharing to combat money laundering and wildlife trafficking crimes” Overview of the workshop, Ho Chi Minh City, December 2022 More than 60 representatives from People’s Procurac...

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