Wild monkeys turn scavengers in Da Nang peninsula

Hanoi customs said Sunday they’d seized 55 rhino horns weighing 125 kilograms in plaster blocks sent from the United Arab Emirates.

Three men were detained Thursday in Hanoi for allegedly trafficking seven frozen tiger carcasses from Laos to Vietnam.

A gaur weighing around 800 kilograms was found dead on Tuesday at the Dong Nai Culture and Nature Reserve in southern Vietnam.

A tourism park in Nha Trang on Tuesday transferred to a rescue center four moon bears it had been holding in captivity.

Lang Son police released 81 kilos of snakes back into the wild on Thursday, rescuing them from being smuggled into China.

100 bags with six tons of pangolin scales were found hidden in two containers labeled dry cashew nuts shipped from Nigeria on Thursday.

Wildlife experts are considering returning a pair of king cobras to Cam Mountain in An Giang Province well away from human habitation.

An 8-ton shipment of pangolin scales was seized at the northern Hai Phong port in March, the city’s customs department said this week.

Two one-year-old bears have been freed from performing for the Hanoi Central Circus after complaints from local and foreign viewers.

Last year humanity destroyed an expanse of tropical forest nearly the size of England, the fourth largest decline since global satellite data become available in 2001, researchers reported Thursday.

South African police said on Sunday they had found 167 rhino horns believed to be destined for Southeast Asia and nabbed two suspects.

Singapore intercepted a second shipping container packed full of pangolin scales destined for Vietnam in less than a week.

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