Dolphin species thought extinct in Vietnam caught in Mekong Delta

The endangered birds are flocking to Kien Giang Province, 20 km from their habitat in Cambodia.

Two Vietnamese men have been jailed for 19 years and six years in Malaysia for possessing body parts of threatened wildlife species.

Vietnam has sent six proposals ahead of a CITES meeting, requesting help in saving some reptiles and other endangered species from extinction.

Hai Phong City police have detained a 27-year-old woman for illegal transport and sale of two newborn moon bears.

The discovery brings the number of known Yangtze giant softshell turtles in the world to four.

A surge in demand in Vietnam is ascribed to a senior politician claiming in the mid-2000s that rhino horn cured his cancer.

The poachers sneaked into a nature reserve in 2015 with over 100 traps baited to catch wild animals.

'Unless they [natural world heritage sites] are protected effectively, we will lose them forever.'

Forest rangers found elongated tortoises and yellow-headed temple turtles wrapped in packing tape.

Camera traps have been used to capture images of the rare and elusive carnivores.

Both of them are listed in the red books of Vietnam and the world.

Farming and hunting pose a more immediate threat to wildlife than climate change.

Police in Vietnam's northern province of Ninh Binh yesterday successfully foiled an attempt to smuggle a group of rare pangolins from Hue to the north where they were to be sold.