Protected Area and World Heritage
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2013
Lam Binh Community sends strong message to poachers
Once bitten, twice shy. Or perhaps, in this case the phrase should be ‘once stung, twice shy’. That is the lesson SOS grantee, People Resources and Conservation Foundation, hopes poachers will take from a recent successful ‘sting’ operation carried out in Lam Binh, a remote mountainous karst region in northern Vietnam.
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08 Feb 2013 | News story
Protected area management: Vietnam vs India
In 2011, an independent evaluation of 10 years of international support to Cat Tien National Park documented the failure to convert high levels of technical and financial support into effective protected area management. This failure was starkly revealed by the killing of the last Javan rhino in Cat Tien, and the extinction of the sub-species, in April 2010. If millions of dollars can’t “buy” improved protected area management in Vietnam, a country with 10% of the world’s vertebrate fauna on 1% of its land area, what can? This is an important question because a similar outcome has been observed in neighboring Laos and Cambodia where significant foreign support has not resulted in reduced threats to globally threatened wildlife. … | Vietnamese
18 Sep 2012 | Article
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2012:
2009:
2008:
- Decree to Regulate Biodiversity Corridors
- Promoting Sustainable Fisheries in MPAs: Planning Skills Built for Stakeholders
- Ashley Brooks: My time at IUCN
2007:
Events:
2009:
- Draft Biodiversity Decree Consultation Workshop
2008:
- Consultative meeting on the draft report of a study on people living in special-use forests - October
- Capacity-building training for Bai Tu Long National Park - May
- Training on sustainable fisheries and MPA certification for MPA network members – April
2007:
- Training on GIS technology for MPA network members – November
2006:
- Establishment of Viet Nam MPA network – June
