Dear Friends and Supporters, we are excited to bring you several pieces of good news this month:  our nature exploring school program for nearly 3000 children successfully finished, new large enclosures to rehabilitate the otters constructed and completed , one pangolin voluntarily handed over to us by a local person, and more.

The workshop "Behind the wildlife trade in Vietnam" was organized by People and Nature Reconciliation for over 20 reporters and journalists in Vietnam. SVW was invited to present at the workshop to help participants understand why we need to protect wildlife and the issues of wildlife farm. It inspired journalists and made them understand the importance of their jobs to support combatting illegal wildlife trade activities.

This was also a great opportunity for strengthening the network between SVW and journalists to support conservation activities. We hope the knowledge we provided to the participants will help them to write and contribute to wildlife conservation and combat illegal wildlife trade in Vietnam.

Some members from our Anti-poaching team, rangers of Pu Mat National Park, our field researchers and FFI’s field researchers had one-week training in SMART software at SVW’s office at Cuc Phuong National Park. SMART (Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool) is developed to record on wildlife criminals operating in the site, improve the ability of law enforcement and biodiversity monitoring in Protected Areas. Mr. James Slade, the expert from Global Wildlife Conservation organization instructed the training course.

Our sincere thanks to Global Wildlife Conservation for sponsoring the workshop!

In May, the team encountered 5 violators and filed records of 2 people, detected 29 illegal camps in which 5 camps were active, and destroyed 27 traps.

The summary report of Anti-poaching team can be found below:

We are in progress of making new merchandise! When purchase one, you will donate to support our wildlife conservation activities. These products will also be used in future workshops and events of SVW. Let us know what you think!

Vietnam's precious wildlife thanks you 
for your invaluable contribution to our work!