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(August 31, 2022) From August 30 to September 01, 2022, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) - Viet Nam Program in collaboration with Ho Chi Minh city Prosecutors professional training school (HPS)  hosted a training course on open-source intelligence (OSINT) for investigators and prosecutors. The training is implemented within the framework of the project "Building Cooperation to Combat Wildlife Trafficking between Africa and Asia'' funded by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforce...

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(August 30, 2022) To continue the series of technical updates and follow up after the training on financial and money laundering investigation in combating wildlife crime, on August 30, 2022, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) - Viet Nam Program collaborated with the People’s Police Academy (PPA) conducted a technical brief for police officers from Southern provinces/ cities. This activity is implemented within the framework of the project “Combating wildlife trafficking in Viet Nam'' funded ...

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(August 26, 2022) On August 26, 2022, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) - Viet Nam Program supported CITES Viet Nam to organize a technical meeting on the draft of MoU between Viet Nam and Nigeria on combating illegal wildlife trade. The meeting is implemented within the framework of the project "Building Cooperation to Combat Wildlife Trafficking between Africa and Asia'' funded by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), United States Department of State. De...

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(August 26, 2022) From August 22 to 25, 2022 in Thua Thien Hue province, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) - Viet Nam Program cooperated with the University of Law - Hue University to organize the “Training of trainers on legal framework on wildlife protection”. The activity is conducted in 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 act...

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(August 19, 2022) On August 18, 2022, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) - Viet Nam Program collaborated with the People’s Police Academy (PPA) to conduct a Post-training follow up and technical brief  on financial and money laundering investigation in combating wildlife crime. This activity is implemented within the framework of the project "Building Cooperation to Combat Wildlife Trafficking between Africa and Asia'' funded by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Af...

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(August 16, 2022) On August 16, 2022, in the implementation of the Viet Nam One Health Partnership for Zoonoses framework signed on March 23, 2022 between three ministries and 29 partners, as a signing member of the One Health partnership framework for zoonoses, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Viet Nam Program has supported the One Health Partnership Secretariat to organize the annual high-level policy forum 2022. The forum was organized to discuss policy issues among partners and stakeholders on seven focus...

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(July 29, 2022) On July 29, 2022, at Hanoi Procuratorate University, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) - Viet Nam Program in collaboration with Hanoi Procuratorate University (HPU) organized a mock trial on adjucating offences against regulations on management and protection of endangered and rare animals. Following the training course "Enhance debating skills for students", this mock trial was conducted within the framework of the project “Combating Wildlife Trafficking in Viet Nam” fun...

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(July 26, 2022) On the 23rd and 24th of July 2022, in Vinh Phuc province, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) – Viet Nam Program in collaboration with the Hanoi Procuratorate University organized a training on “Enhance debating skills for students”. The training is part of the series program "Strengthening training on combat illegal trade through mock trials" conducted within the framework of the project “Combating Wildlife Trafficking in Viet Nam” funded by the Bureau of...

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(July 27, 2022) On July 21, 2020 in Long Bien district of Ha Noi city, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) – Viet Nam Program and Environmental Police Division, Public Security Department of Ha Noi city held an awareness raising event on zero wildlife crime targeted at local wildlife-related businesses and facilities. Figure 1: Representative of People’s Police Academy presenting current regulations on wildlife protection, Ha Noi, July 2022, Photo by: HNPC05 About 70 representatives of wil...

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(July 23, 2022) On July 22, 2022, WCS collaborated with the Department of Legal Affairs and Scientific Management (Dept. 14), The Supreme People’s Procuracy of Viet Nam to organize a workshop to introduce and guide how to use the "Point to Prove (P2P) - A reference guide for legal application in handling wildlife related cases". The activity is implemented within the Combating Wildlife Trafficking project in Viet Nam funded by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (IN...

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