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(March 31, 2023) On March 29, 2023 in Quang Ninh province, following the success of the briefing event on “Preventing risks of illegal wildlife trade by sea route from Africa to Viet Nam” organized by Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) - Viet Nam Program, in collaboration with Viet Nam Maritime University (VMU) and Ho Chi Minh city University of Law in September 2022, WCS Viet Nam and VMU co-hosted a workshop on “Promoting public-private partnership to suppress wildlife smuggling on internatio...

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(March 28, 2023) On March 25-26, 2023, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) - Viet Nam Program in collaboration with Faculty of Maritime Studies, Viet Nam Maritime University (VMU) organized a raising awareness event on promoting on “The role of youth in combating maritime wildlife smuggling” on the occasion of celebrating anniversary of the establishment of Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union. The event was designed to improve awareness of the VMU’s students on the risks of illegal wildlife trade...

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(March 21, 2023) Ha Noi & Ninh Binh, March 17-18, 2022 - Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) - Viet Nam Program in collaboration with University of Law – Viet Nam National University, Ha Noi (VNU-UL), Ho Chi Minh City University of Law (HCM-ULAW), University of Law - Hue University (HUL), Ha Noi Procuratorate University (HPU) organized the student research workshop on  “Legislation on preventing and handling violations against regulations of wildlife protection”. The workshop was condu...

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(March 14, 2023) Bac Ninh, March 13-14, 2023, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) - Viet Nam Program collaborated with Viet Nam Court Academy (VCA) to organize the workshop on “Strengthening the use of financial information and anti-money laundering legislation in adjudicating wildlife crime”.  In Viet Nam according to the assessment of State Bank of Viet Nam in 2018, the potential risks of money laundering originating from the violations of regulations on protection of endangered, and ra...

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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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(February 20, 2023) Ninh Binh, February 18 -19th, 2023, Wildlife Conservation Society - Viet Nam Program (WCS Viet Nam) in collaboration with Viet Nam Maritime University and Viet Nam National University of Forestry organized a training of trainers on “Legal Framework on Wildlife Protection''.  The training course is designed to enhance knowledge and skills for lecturers from both universities to effectively integrate the counter wildlife trafficking (CWT) content into the training program for...

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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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