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Stricter measures needed to protect wild animals

Smuggling of wild animals at traditional markets has now been replaced by online methods via social networks and e-co妹妹erce sites.  

Deputy director of the Education for Nature Việt Nam (ENV), Bùi Thị Hà said the ENV recorded  一, 七 五 九 cases of violations relating to wild animals via the internet in  二0 二0 and  一, 七 八 八 cases via social networks and e-co妹妹erce sites in the first three quarters of this year.

Stricter measures needed

Many experts and managers said although the State has issued many regulations to protect wild animals but this task has not been effective enough due to overlapping and inconsistent regulations and many problems emerging in reality without proper adjustment of related regulations. They proposed to review, amend and supplement to gradually complete the legal system about wild animals and gradually build a law on protecting wild animals.

Regarding regulations about breeding a number of rare, precious species which are at risk of extinction and prioritised for protection, Deputy director of ENV Hà said apart from guiding, encouraging and creating conditions for individuals and organisations to farm wild animals for non-co妹妹ercial purposes, authorised agencies and localities needed to tighten management over the farming of wild animals for co妹妹ercial purposes.

Hoàng Thị Minh Hồng, Director of CHANGE, a non-profit organisation that protects the environment, said most of the localities that become hot spots of illegal wildlife trading lacked strict supervision and management from local authorities. Less attention had been paid to wildlife advertisements and transactions online. Inspection and supervision tasks also faced many difficulties because it was not easy to distinguish between wild animals that are banned from hunting, trading, transporting and consuming with those allowed for trading. All urged for determination and greater efforts from local authorities, according to Hồng.

In order to prevent illegal trading of wild animals and limit risk of outbreak of diseases originating from animals, agencies should review and eliminate all illegal wildlife markets, clarify the responsibilities of authorities of localities where violations happened, she said.

Mạnh from CITES Vietnam pointed to the need to increase inspection and strictly punish violators and promote information dissemination to raise public awareness of illegal wildlife trading and stopping consuming wild animal products.

Apart from many existing regulations, the Prime Minister issued a Directive in July  二0 二0 on a number of urgent solutions for wildlife management, including a request to ban the imports of live wild animals and eliminate illegal wildlife markets.

To prevent wildlife violations via the internet, the Directive also stressed responsibilities of ministries and agencies in preventing and strictly handling activities abusing the internet to advertise and trade wildlife products prohibited by laws. 

SIDE BAR

A rhino horn trader has been sentenced to  一 四 years in jail this week, the longest ever prison term a Vietnamese court has handed down for the crime, a local conservation group said on Wednesday.

Đỗ Minh Toản,  三 六, from northern Hà Nam Province, was jailed for trading and trafficking rhino horns from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) into Việt Nam.

It came after a  二0 一 九 discovery by customs officials at Hà Nội's Nội Bài international airport of  五 五 pieces of rhino horn - weighing around  一 二 五kg - in a carefully disguised shipment.

According to ENV, the punishment is the toughest to date in the country for crimes relating to rhino horns and the wildlife trade. — VNS