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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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(November 25, 2022) Thua Thien Hue province, November 24-25, 2022, Wildlife Conservation Society - Viet Nam Program (WCS Viet Nam) in collaboration with the University of Law, Hue University (HUL) organized the Training course on “Enhancing the participation of social organizations in wildlife protection in Viet Nam”. This training is a part of the series activities implemented by WCS and HUL in 2022 aiming at increasing the participation of the community in wildlife protection in Viet Nam. 36 pa...

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(November 13, 2022) Thua Thien Hue province, November 12, 2022 – Wildlife Conservation Society - Viet Nam Program (WCS Viet Nam) in collaboration with the University of Law, Hue University (HUL) organized the final round of the contest “Students with wildlife protection regulations” for HUL students. This contest is to summarize a series of activities conducted by WCS and partners in 2022 aimed at increasing the participation of youth in wildlife protection in Viet Nam. HUL's students a...

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(October 23, 2022) On October 21-22, 2022, The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) - Viet Nam Program collaborated with the Faculty of Broadcasting (FoB), Academy of Journalism and Communication organized a training for female journalists on investigating and reporting the issue of illegal wildlife trade. The training was conducted within the framework of project “Disrupting the illegal wildlife supply chain in Asia through strengthening partnerships between the government and civil society to increase the e...

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(October 18, 2022) In a follow up to three mock trials on adjudicating offences against regulations on management and protection of endangered and rare animals organized by Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) - Viet Nam Program in collaboration with law training institutions, on October 18, 2022, WCS continued to cooperate with Hanoi Procuratorate University (HPU) to implement the second mock trial on adjudicating offences against regulations on management and protection of endangered and rare animals exclusively ...

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(September 29, 2022) On September 28, 2022, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) - Viet Nam Program collaborated with Ho Chi Minh City University of Law (HCMULAW) and Viet Nam Maritime University (VMU) organized a technical briefing on preventing risks of illegal wildlife trade by sea route from Africa to Viet Nam. The briefing is implemented within the framework of the project "Building cooperation to combat wildlife trafficking between Africa and Asia'' funded by the Bureau of International Narcoti...

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(September 23, 2022) Ha Noi, September 23, 2022, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) - Viet Nam Program collaborated with the Banking Academy of Viet Nam to conduct consultation with relevant stakeholders on the plan to survey awareness and capacity of financial institutions to prevent financial risks associated with wildlife crime in Viet Nam.  Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pham Thi Hoang Anh, Director of Banking Scientific Research Institute spoke at the opening of the workshop, Ha Noi, September 2022 M...

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