Wildlife Conservation Organization
Photo credit: Terry Whittaker Delacour’s Langur, Trachypithecus delacouri, is listed as ‘CRITICALLY ENDANGERED’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM. Found only in north-central Vietnam, Delacour’s Langur is one of the rarest and most threatened primates on Continue Reading
Photo credit: Zeb Hogan The Mekong Giant Catfish, Pangasianodon gigas, is classified as ‘CRITICALLY ENDANGERED’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. It is the world’s largest freshwater fish and is found only in the parts of the Continue Reading
A Javan rhino, one of the world’s rarest large mammals, has been found shot dead with its horn chopped off in a national park in southern Vietnam, a suspected victim of poachers. A team of rangers found the rhino’s carcass Continue Reading
About two and a half weeks ago there were 239 elephant tusks totaling 1.4 tons seized in Thailand and about a month before that another major shipment of illegal ivory was seized in Thailand. Has this deterred smugglers? NO! Instead Continue Reading
Throughout much of Southeast Asia and countries like Vietnam there is still a thriving market for bushmeat and animal parts. The fact of the matter is that it’s still culturally acceptable in some of these countries to eat these animals Continue Reading