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Organisation re-releases key wildlife-related law enforcement guidance

Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV) has recently re-issued a document guiding law enforcement relating to wild animals, in response to International Day for Biological Diversity on May 22.
Organisation re-releases key wildlife-related law enforcement guidance ảnh 1Latest edition of ENV's  wildlife-related law enforcement guidance (Source: ENV)

Hanoi (VNA) - Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV) has recently re-issueda document guiding law enforcement relating to wild animals, in response to InternationalDay for Biological Diversity on May 22.

The document was initiallypublished in 2018 and has been updated since.

More than 1,000copies of this latest version will be sent to law enforcement agencies, courts,and procuracies throughout the country to support wildlife-related lawenforcement efforts.

Including severallegal documents that became effective in 2019, this version is expected to assistauthorised agencies in dealing with common violations such as hunting,transporting, and smuggling wild animals and derivative products and handlingseized wildlife or body parts.

ENV wasestablished in 2000 as Vietnam’s first non-government organisation focused onthe conservation of nature and the environment. It works to protect theenvironment by tackling the biggest threat to biodiversity - the illegalwildlife trade. Its mission is to end the trade in Vietnam, which has been devastatingecosystems around the world and pushing the earth closer and closer to a sixthmass extinction./.
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