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  Website launched to help identify endangered animals

  (14:39:53 PM 06/08/2013)

  Education for Nature-Viet Nam has launched a new website that will help people identify rare wild animals being targeted by the illegal animal trade.

  Tags: Website, identify endangered animals, illegal animal trade, global wildlife trade, Dak Nong, wildlife farms,
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  Endangered animals rescued in Vietnam

  (13:02:48 PM 14/04/2015)

  Rare animals such as leopards, golden-cheeked gibbons, gray-shanked douc langur, Indochinese lutung and Asian black bear have been rescued by the Wildlife at Risk Organization (WAR).

  Tags: Endangered , pets, rescued , Vietnam,
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  Students learn to protect endangered doucs

  (10:50:36 AM 05/01/2015)

  A nature conservation centre in Danang City has organised education trips for students to learn about wild animals in local forests, including the rare and endangered red-shanked douc langur, pygathrix nemaeus, of which only a few hundred still exist.

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  People urged to say ‘no’ to gifts of rare animals

  (09:43:38 AM 11/03/2013)

  HA NOI — The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has called on citizens not to consume endangered wildlife ahead of Tet, when the practice is particularly widespread.

  Tags: environment, gift, rare, animal, law
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  Legal proceedings commence for endangered animal violation

  (11:26:32 AM 02/03/2015)

  The management board of the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in the central province of Quang Binh has begun legal proceedings against a violation of regulations on protecting animals in the list of rare species in accordance with Article 190 of the Penal Code.

  Tags: endangered animal violation, Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park,
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  Researchers identify why alcoholism causes muscle weakness

  (21:02:46 PM 23/04/2014)

  U.S. researchers said Monday that muscle weakness from long-term alcoholism may be due to an inability of mitochondria, the powerhouses of cells, to self- repair.

  Tags: Researchers, identify, why alcoholism causes, muscle weakness
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  NEW CURE FOR RHINO POACHING

  (08:57:53 AM 08/12/2015)

  Ha Noi, 7 December 2015—The next generation of Vietnamese traditional medicine (TM) practitioners is forging a new tradition of protecting endangered animals and plants. Scientists, professors and over 600 of Viet Nam’s top TM students pledged never to use endangered wildlife in their practice after learning about the role TM can play in wildlife conservation.

  Tags: NEW, CURE, FOR, RHINO POACHING
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  Police struggle to identify substandard helmets

  (10:49:48 AM 02/07/2014)

  Yesterday was the first day for traffic police to start fining motorcyclists wearing sub-standard helmets as part of a National Traffic Safety Committee campaign. But both police and motorcyclists remain puzzled about identifying substandard helmets, local reports say.

  Tags: Police, struggle, to identify, substandard, helmets
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  Vietnam joins hands to prevent pangolin trade

  (14:36:23 PM 25/06/2015)

  Vietnam wants to cooperate with international organisations and countries worldwide to preserve endangered wildlife animals, including pangolins which are on the brink of extinction due to illegal hunting and trading for meat and scales.

  Tags: Vietnam, joins , hands , prevent, pangolin trade,
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  The world’s top 10 most unique and endangered birds

  (10:32:02 AM 11/04/2014)

  Scientists from the Zoological Society of London and Yale University have assessed the world’s 9,993 bird species according to their evolutionary distinctiveness and global extinction risk to produce a list of the world’s 100 most unique and endangered birds. Here are the top 10

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  “We are disappointed in the pig-chopping ritual”: Asia Animals Foundation

  (11:36:42 AM 27/02/2015)

  Dr. Tuan Bendixsen, chief representative of Animals Asia in Vietnam, said he would launch a stronger call for removal of the rituals "causing pain to animals".

  Tags: pig-chopping ritual, nem thuong village, animals asia foundation,
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  Face-to-face with an endangered giant

  (10:33:54 AM 05/03/2014)

  "I could smell the animal and, even though I was working fast, I remember wondering how on earth anyone could possibly want to kill such a beautiful creature just to take its tusks. It all seems so primitive and barbaric." - Marco Longari (AFP)

  Tags: elephant, endangered, poaching, tusks, Chad,
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  500kg endangered ocean sunfish caught in Vietnam

  (14:12:56 PM 25/08/2014)

  An over-500kg ocean sunfish, an endangered species, was trapped in the net of a fisherman while he was fishing off central Vietnam’s Ha Tinh Province on Thursday.

  Tags: dead fish , fisherman, Ha Tinh Province, ocean
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  Rare wild animals seen in U Minh Ha forest

  (11:02:02 AM 16/10/2014)

  Several rare wild animals have recently been discovered in U Minh Ha forest in the southernmost province of Ca Mau, according to the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

  Tags: Rare, wild, animals, seen, U Minh Ha forest
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  Pig-chopping festival is one of the most brutal: Animals Asia

  (14:06:12 PM 03/02/2015)

  "Chopping a live healthy pig is cruel behavior, and it hardens the feelings of viewers, especially children," said Nguyen Thanh Tam, of the Animals Asia Foundation (AAF), in an interview with VNE.

  Tags: :Pig-chopping festival, nem thuong, animals asia,
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  Endangered pythons released into the wild

  (12:34:32 PM 18/10/2014)

  Two rescued Burmese pythons (Python molurus) have been released in the Dong Nai Culture and Nature Reserve, according to the Cu Chi Wildlife Rescue Station in HCM City.