At the invitation of the Administration of President Barack Obama, His Excellency Nguyen Phu Trong, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), paid a historic visit to the United States, the first by a CPV’s General Secretary. On this occasion, which in...
Authorities in Mozambique on July 6 burned more than 2.6 tonnes of ivory and rhino horns confiscated during various anti-poaching busts, demonstrating a tough stance on wildlife trafficking. It was the first time that Mozambique destroyed illegally gotten ivory and rhino horns, following in the foot...
Mozambique plans to destroy more than one ton of confiscated ivory as well as 53 rhino horns to show its resolve in the fight against poaching, citing Mozambican authorities, the Wildlife Conservation Society said the destruction of the stockpile will happen Monday in Maputo, the capital.[EN]
On July 4, authorities at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport stopped the shipment which was inside two wooden crates marked ''marble pieces'' that contained four suitcases with the ivory inside. They seized 250 kilos of ivory -- or about 130 tusks and pieces. The haul was headed from Congo to Laos and t...
A conference was held to discuss the National Marine Turtle Conservation Action Plan 2015-2025 in Ninh Thuan on July 3. Speaking at the conference, Pham Trong Yen of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development's Directorate of Fisheries said that sea turtles in Vietnam listed in the Red Book f...
A shipment of ivory worth R4-million was intercepted at O.R. Tambo International on its way from Zimbabwe to Vietnam, South African officials said on July 3, hailing it as one of the biggest recent finds. The 267 kilogramme haul was hidden in boxes wrapped in plastic and labelled as handicrafts. "A ...