Wild Welfare organization made a visit to our center in Cuc Phuong National Park. They said that they rarely had the chance to visit places like SVW and they were delighted. The team provided us with insight as to what we could "tweek" in our center with kindness and respect for us and all of our hard work. They have noticed significant improvement since the last investigation a few years ago and we should be very proud. We were offered some tweaks to make to improve the quality of life for our animals in CPCP. They will send us a full report by January 2020.

Hopeful record of Owston’s civet and Sunda pangolin from camera traps

The final camera-trap collection has been completed. A total of 21 camera-traps were set for approximately six months (since June) in areas which looked to contain relatively high wildlife abundance. Multiple camera-traps recorded Sunda Pangolins, Owston’s Civets and other hunting-sensitive species such as Crested Argus and Greater Hog Badger.

Owston’s Civet Conservation Strategy completed!

The world’s first conservation strategy for the Endangered Owston’s Civet has been completed, with English and Vietnamese versions produced. This document sets out the 10-year conservation strategy for the species, and what the ex-situ and in-situ priorities are. The strategy is the output from the conservation planning workshop that SVW convened in Hanoi earlier this year. Thank you to the hard work of all the partners in the Owston’s Civet conservation programme. Now we start implementing the strategy!

Studied Behaviour Change at Oxford University

Truong Hai Yen and Nguyen Ngoc Quynh Nhu attended the Behaviour Change Intervention Design Meeting from November 6 to 15, 2019 in the UK. They worked with the Oxford project team, shared knowledge, provided expertise on the Vietnamese context to the discussion, to participate in the process of developing the concept for an intervention. This is a good opportunity for SVW staff to build capacity to operate the project.

Participate in Arts and Culture to address biodiversity-related issues in Cambodia

Le Thi Hai Yen attended the Workshop on applying arts and culture to address biodiversity-related issues (livelihood development for people) in Phnom Penh, Laos from November 20 to 25, 2019. This program is supported by the British Council, Mekong cultural hub and Helventas, which is implementing livelihood development projects for forest-dependent communities by developing biodiversity-based products. It is useful for the project of community propaganda and livelihood development in Pu Mat National Park.

Our partner support

'Bring conservation to life'

Conservation is about people and wildlife- and the stories in this film really bring that home!

This documentary is produced by Synchronicity Earth, in which it's highlight SVW works among other dedicated conservation organization.