tailieunhanh - Báo cáo " Wildlife Trading in Vietnam:Situation, causes, and solutions "

This report provides data on the logistics, scope and economics of the illegal trade in wildlife in Vietnam. It analyses the main reasons for the rapid growth in this trade and highlights key failures in the country’s attempts to control it. The report recommends that the government should strengthen the capacity of the agencies responsible for fighting the trade and raise their budgets. It also highlights the need to use education to encourage Vietnamese people to stop consuming illegal wildlife products | Wildlife Trading in Vietnam Situation causes and solutions Nguyen Van Song Abstract This report provides data on the logistics scope and economics of the illegal trade in wildlife in Vietnam. It analyses the main reasons for the rapid growth in this trade and highlights key failures in the country s attempts to control it. The report recommends that the government should strengthen the capacity of the agencies responsible for fighting the trade and raise their budgets. It also highlights the need to use education to encourage Vietnamese people to stop consuming illegal wildlife products. The report concludes that given the scale of the problem a high level of commitment at all levels of government will be needed to significantly affect the illegal wildlife trade in Vietnam. Key words illegal and legal wildlife trade endangered species. Introduction and problems Vietnam has a total of 103 threatened and near-threatened species. Under the Birdlife International Global Conservation Priority Vietnam ranks 10th in the world with respect to importance of endangered species. It has more endemic species than any other country in Southeast Asia. However many of these are now very rare and difficult to see Dearden 1994 . Bois 1997 stated that the illegal trade of wildlife species is presently the third largest contraband business after illegal drugs and weapons and is worth an average of USD 10 billion per annum. According to a recent report by The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CITES 2000 a vast diversity of the world s plant and animal life is disappearing faster than new species are being discovered and recorded. Scientists estimate that within the next 30 years more than one-fifth of the million types of plants animals and other organisms living here on earth will become extinct. Vietnam has now wiped out 200 species of birds and 120 other animal species over the last four decades mainly due to illegal hunting and trading