Save Vietnam´s Wildlife (SVW)

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Save Vietnam´s Wildlife (SVW) is a national Non-Profit Organisation in Vietnam that was founded in 2014 on the critical need for more effective solutions to secure a future for Vietnamese wildlife.

Vision
Vietnam´s wildlife is safe.

Mission
Stop the extinction and champion the recovery of threatened species in Vietnam.

Since SVW was founded in July 2014, we have developed long-term conservation program. Most of our resources are spent working on the ground to save animals from illegal trade, protecting our recognised wildlife strongholds and continuing to monitor released individual and wild populations. There are six main fields we are working on: Wildlife rescue and Rehabilitation, Site protection, Education Outreach, Conservation Breeding, Species Conservation and Advocacy.

Our work
• Wildlife rescue and Rehabilitation: Rescuing, rehabilitating and releasing animals confiscated from the illegal wildlife trade. Our rescue work directly targets these threats to wild populations. We use the media coverage of rescues and releases, to help educate the public, and raise awareness on the impacts of the illegal wildlife trade. Most importantly, we use these rescues to encourage and motivate the government to continue combating the illegal trade. Our aim is that all rescued, rehabilitated and captive born carnivores and pangolins are released back to the wild, and that these releases support the conservation of wild populations. As part of the pre-release preparation, animals undergo health checks and their feeding habits, behavior, weight and body condition are closely monitored.
• Site protection: Improving law enforcement to combat illegal poaching and engaging communities to protect nature. Anti-Poaching Unit: We combat illegal hunting and trade through addressing the protection of released animals, as well as to secure Pu Mat National Park’s wild populations. Community Engagement: We work with local communities to raise awareness, find viable alternative livelihoods; to reduce their impacts and inspire them to protect wildlife. Law Enforcement Improvement: We organize workshops for government forest rangers, local police, the border army and community leaders. The aim is to strengthen the collaboration between them and improve enforcement against the illegal wildlife trade.
• Species Conservation: Field research: The field teams of Save Vietnam´s Wildlife carry out field studies to improve the understanding of wildlife ecology, status and conservation requirement. Social research: ave Vietnam’s Wildlife has been undertaking several social studies throughout Vietnam to provide a baseline understanding of why people hunt, eat and use wildlife products. Captive research: We focus our captive research on disease, nutrition, behaviours, veterinary care, and welfare for our focus species. We use this research to produce international standard husbandry standards and protocols.
• Conservation Breeding: Captive conservation breeding programs are established for high priority species to produce captive bred animals that can be used to re-establish and support the recovery of wild populations in Vietnam’s protected areas.
• Education Outreach: We aim to promote positive perceptions and attitudes supporting the conservation of wildlife. By building awareness and communicating messages that create positive perceptions of our species we aim to create attitudinal change.
• Advocacy: Championing law´s change for wildlife recovery. Our staff presented over 20 national or technical workshops to review wildlife laws or government decrees. We led efforts to build up the profiles for all small carnivores and pangolins in Vietnam and contributed to pangolin conservation internationally in supporting the upgrading of species conservation status internationally. SVW also led or joined several campaigns calling to increase punishment for illegal poaching and trading.

Huong is the Communication Officer at Save Vietnam´s Wildlife (SVW).

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