Wildlife: Not yet preserved, has ... liquidated

Over the past 11 months, 300 pangolins have been seized from illegal wildlife transports, but only 3 individuals have been rescued .

Pangolin - Manis Javanica (Photo: savci.upol.cz)

According to Nguyen Van Thai, manager of the Asian Pangolin Conservation Program, since October 2005, the Program has only successfully rescued two-thirds of Pangasius ( Manis Javanica ) that has been delivered. Although in fact, the number of pangolins collected in FPDs needs to be greatly saved and preserved.

One of the reasons for this situation is due to the lack of cooperation of Forest Protection Sub-Departments with other authorities.

In fact, the number of pangolins in the arrests mostly falls into ailing condition, but while waiting for the decision of the provincial People's Committee to handle, the forest rangers often do not inform the program for assistance. .

Most recently, on November 4, police and Forest Protection Department of Thanh Hoa province arrested and confiscated 72 individuals of Pangolin weighing 270 kg. Upon receiving this news, the Program for the Monitoring and Hunting of Wildlife Hunting and Trading in Vietnam (WCS) actively contacted the seizure unit to rescue, but received the notice of this Pangolin number "was liquidation ".

The conservation program of the Asian Pangolin is cooperated between Cuc Phuong National Park located in Ninh Binh province and Newquay zoo (United Kingdom), in order to preserve and rescue this rare animal.

This is not only the difficulty of the Pangolin Conservation Program, but the rescue of Primate and Turtle species at Cuc Phuong National Park also falls into the same situation.

Until now, the Asian Pangolin Conservation Program in Cuc Phuong has not had any feasible measures to ensure food for this animal in the rescue process.

However, the program is still rated as the second point in the world to successfully rescue Pangolin, after Taipai Zoo (Taiwan).

Illegal wildlife trade: Super profits

Pangolin, also known as vent, is a wild animal in the mountainous provinces of the North, Central and Mekong Delta regions.

In recent years, the authorities have discovered and arrested many illegal trafficking cases.In the morning of September 21, the Traffic Police team (Traffic Police) of Quan Tru station, Police Department of the Ministry of iron and steel, CATP Hai Phong checked 3 cars, discovered about 500 kg of wild pangolin.Nearly 2 months later, on November 20, the Police Department of Ha Tinh province completed the initial documents and exhibits seized nearly 300 kg of pangolins due to dozens of motorcycles carrying more than 300 kg of pangolin from Huong Son to Germany Tho (Ha Tinh).

Previously, in 2005, Customs Department of Noi Bai international airport discovered 9 cases of illegal transportation and trading of wild animals and products of wild animals, seized 471 Ky da, 4,159. Turtle (including 05 types), 706 pangolins, 711 turtles, 41 kg rhinoceros horns.

Meanwhile, according to research by TS.Nguyen Van Song, University of Agriculture I (Hanoi), the total annual revenue due to the illegal trade in wildlife brings an estimated US $ 66.5 million of which US $ 21 million in interest.

The study also found that the number of live and cross-border live and meat animals detected by the average arrest from 1997 to 2002 was only 3.1% of the actual.The most expensive wild animal on the market today is the golden turtle, which costs about 40 million VND / 1 kg, which is almost extinct in Vietnam .

Profit is the main reason why wildlife traders and hunters intensify hunting, searching and defying the law.

(Synthesized from People's Army and newspapers)