VietNamNet Bridge – Raising wild animals for fun or profit has become a hobby of wealthy Vietnamese businessmen.

 New research suggests the global decline in wildlife is connected to an increase in human trafficking and child slavery.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Last week, Viet Nam News asked readers about whether they supported the destruction of illegal wildlife stockpiles or the sale to provide additional funding for the fight against the trade.

VietNamNet Bridge – An adult male gaur (Bos gaurus) has been discovered wandering around the Sao La Nature Reserve buffer zone, and scientists plan to return him to the Nam Cat Tien Nature Reserve.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A baby South African giraffe was born in captivity on January 2 at the Dai Nam zoological park in the southern province of Binh Duong.

 VietNamNet Bridge – While some big businessmen entertain themselves with the collections of luxurious cars or helicopters, others spend their money on the collections of wild animals.

According to the World Bank Poverty Assessment 2012 report based on new standards, the poverty rate in Vietnam has fallen from 58 percent to 20.7 percent in the past twenty years.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Hundreds of white-cheeked gibbons, primates, bears ... which were seriously injured were successfully rescued by the Cu Chi Wildlife Rescue Center and released back to the nature.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) has called on citizens not to consume endangered wildlife ahead of Tet, when the practice is particularly widespread.

Here in Con Cuong district of the central province of Nghe An, the ecosystem has been in danger, while a lot of animal species may get extinct as they have been killed everyday to become the food at the parties.