Friday, December 16, 2016

Project to protect Vietnam elephants kicks off

World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) and Vietnamese nature authorities on Wednesday kicked off an emergency project to protect the biggest herd of elephants in the country from extinction.

The project, which is being undertaken by WWF Vietnam and the Yok Don National Park in Đắk Lắk Province, will focus on the enforcement of environmental law and mitigation of human and elephant conflicts.

The mitigation job is developed on the basic elephants’ custom of seasonal movement and tasks to improve livelihood for local residents in the Central Highlands.

Under the project, training courses for forest rangers on the topic of law enforcement as well as skill for investigating habitat sites will be open for the ranger divisions in the region. WWF Vietnam will support the task of photo traps to monitor the elephants.

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