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Standardizing the conservation effort for endangered crested gibbon (Nomascus) in Vietnam The project has the following objectives: (1) Review gibbon conservation efforts, identify gaps, and document best conservation practices; (2) Organize a gibbon conservation seminar to highlight gaps, challenges, and create a road map for gibbon conservation in key conservation sites; (3) Provide standardized gibbon conservation training at key gibbon conservation sites; (4) Establish and maintain a technical assistance group for long-term gibbon conservation; and, (5) Bridge cooperation between scientists, policy makers and practitioners.
Rhino & Tiger Conservation Fund Leveraging political support to fight tiger and other illegal wildlife trade on the Vietnam-China.border
Building National Capacity to Combat Wildlife Trafficking in Vietnam : (1) establishing a multidisciplinary masters course in combating the illegal wildlife trade, in partnership with the University of Vinh (Vinh City, Nghe An Province), starting with two short courses for Masters students and appropriate NGO and government staff in 2020 and 2021; (2) facilitating work placements for course participants by partnering with wildlife conservation and enforcement organizations; and (3) coordinating course participants research projects directly related to aspects of the illegal wildlife trade.
Combating the Illegal Wildlife Trade in Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles in Vietnam for 1) undertaking a needs assessment and review of illegal TFT confiscations in Vietnam; (2) developing clear guidelines on rescue of confiscated animals, placement and release options for native and non-native TFT species in the wildlife trade in Vietnam; (3) improving enforcement capacity of wildlife protection agencies in Vietnam through training and resource development; (4) augmenting the DNA database of endangered turtles in Vietnam with good locality data; (5) developing a protocol (using DNA barcoding) to identify turtles in the illegal trade and their geographic origins to aid in enforcement, monitoring of farms, and releases of confiscated animals.
Securing a stronghold and recovering populations of Sunda Pangolins in Pu Mat National Park, Vietnam The purpose of this project is to recover the populations of both Sunda and Chinese pangolins in Pu Mat National Park located along the Laos/Vietnam border in Central Vietnam by establishing a safe and secure stronghold for the species. Specific activities include: (1) build up a strong-hold for pangolins by building capacity for forest rangers and the border army to combat illegal hunting, trading and implementing a training program for both rangers and the military who patrol the border zone where poaching and cross-border trade is known to occur; (2) work with the Dan Lai community who live within and near the national park to raise awareness on wildlife conservation and the sustainable use of natural resources to reduce threats to wildlife; and (3) recover the population of Sunda pangolins by reintroducing rescued pangolins from the illegal trade and to monitor the populations by radio-tracking and camera trapping and establishing a field research project within the park to gather data on species ecology. It will also help build research capacity for rangers and the park scientific department with regards to equipment use, methods and data analysis.
Marine Turtle Conservation Fund The purpose of this project is to support conservation activities to protect Japanese loggerhead nesting population. Under this Award the Recipient will work with fisherman to reduce by-catch mortality with pound net fisheries in Japan and will host a special session at the 2010 World Small Scale Fisheries Congress to assemble current knowledge and develop coordinated strategies for assessing and mitigating sea turtle bycatch in small scale fisheries.
Support for community based marine turtle nesting beach conservation and bycatch reduction in Vietnam The recipient will implement community based nesting beach conservation programs and bycatch monitoring in Quang Ninh, Quang Tri, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh, and Binh Thuan provinces as well an education and outreach activities in 6 coastal communities involving about 300 fishers and 500 school children. Grantee will also assist Vn Governmental Institutions with updateing and implementing Marine Turtle Conservation Action Plan 2014-2012. The USFWS will work closely with grantee in setting goals, priorities, and developing budgets, and will provide assistance as needed and requested in engaging with National Governmental and other institutions to improve collaboration and conservation outcomes.
Mitigating Threats to the Western Black Crested Gibbon in Northern Vietnam via Community..Conservation Teams and Enforcement of Firearm Controls "The purpose of this proposal is to reduce anthropogenic resource extraction from the Muong La Watershed Area and Mu Cang Chai Species Habitat Conservation Area to halt habitat loss and stabilize the western black crested gibbon population..This will be done by strengthening community-based protection of the gibbons and their habitat; strengthening enforcement of the national firearm decree to curtail illegal hunting; and constructing a forest conservation station to allow more strategic patrolling. Specifically this project will include: 1) scaling up patrolling coverage by recruiting additional community members for the Muong La Community Conservation Teams; 2) providing equipment for Community Conservation Teams; 3) hosting SMART conservation software refresher training; 4) establishing a bimonthly SMART meeting to improve CCT patrol efficacy; 5) adapting the MAC (Management Advisory Committee) funding model from Mu Cang Chai to fund a MAC in Muong La; 6) hosting a firearm confiscation drive as called for in the Muong La Species Conservation Action Plan (village meetings and firearm confiscation drives will be funded in ten key villages); and 7) constructing a field station in Mu Cang Chai to enable strategic patrolling from the core zone of the Species Habitat Conservation Area. ."
Marine Turtles ConservationFund-Species Conservation Grant Support Community Based Marine Turtle Nesting Beach Conservation in Vietnam
TAKING ACTION TO COMBAT THE ILLEGAL TRADE AND EXPLOITATION OF MARINE TURTLES IN VIETNAM, PHASE II The purpose of this project is to implement a community-based sea turtle conservation project between.the mouths of the Karaslaya and Indio/San Juan rivers, an area which hosts the most important hawksbill.nesting in Caribbean Nicaragua. The intent of this project is to protect nests and nesting turtles from.poaching. Activities include: (1) training local community members to conduct twice-weekly surveys.from May through October along 36 km of the El Cocal nesting beach to count nests and deter poaching:.(2) conducting an eight-day field and classroom-based sea turtle course for four students and a faculty.member from Blue Fields Indian and Caribbean University; and (3) conducting outreach, education, and.awareness activities with municipal and communal authorities and local communities. El Cocal is.relatively underdeveloped and remote, and may migrate inland as sea-level rises, becoming a possible.critical nesting refuge.
Strengthening Transboundary Cooperation for the Conservation of Yellow-Cheeked Crested Gibbon and Other Endangered Wildlife in the Southern Annamites Western Slopes Landscape enforcement action and monitoring
Rhinoceros & Tiger Conservation-Species Conservation Grant Addressing the illegal trade and consumption of rhino horn in Vietnam
Benefit sharing access and the conservation of the yellow-cheeked crested gibbons within Vietnams Bu Gia Map National Park The purpose of this proposal is to better protect the habitats of the yellow-cheeked crested gibbon within the Bu Gia Map National Park by limiting the impacts of local people on the core zone of the park and by increasing the incomes of these people by creating benefit sharing mechanisms within the park. This will be done by: 1) conducting focus groups involving local people to identify target species that are normally collected by local people as non-timber forest products; 2) creating a map of the areas that can be harvested without disturbing the gibbons or damaging their habitats; 3) conducting line transect surveys of the harvestable species; 4) preparing permanent plots for use in estimating the growth rates of target harvestable species within the selected areas so the park mangers can then determine the amount of non-timber forest products that can be harvested by the people to ensure sustainability; 5) formalizing agreements on access to park areas by local people for the purpose of benefit sharing; 6) creating non-timber forest management councils that will cooperate with park mangers to control and monitor local peoples activities within the park; and 7) using sign boards to create borders between the preferred habitats of the gibbons and harvestable areas.
Leveraging political support to fight tiger and other illegal wildlife trade on the Vietnam-China..border The purpose of this project is to reduce the volume of illegal trade in tigers across the Vietnam-China border through increased Government of Vietnam action to fight illegal wildlife trade. This will be done by: (1) facilitating central and provincial level inter-agency communication and coordination on combating transnational wildlife crimes on the Vietnam-China border; (2) enhancing communications and coordination between relevant agencies in Guangxi (China) and Quang Ninh (Vietnam) province on combating transnational wildlife crimes along their shared border; (3) increasing the attention and response from government of Vietnam on inspection of shipments and related investigations at the Mong Cai border crossing by coordinating and partnering with organizations and agencies working on the other forms of crime in Vietnam; and (4) generating domestic and international media coverage that supports prevention and suppression of transnational wildlife crimes.
COMMUNITY BASED MARINE TURTLE NESTING BEACH CONSERVATION AND BYCATCH REDUCTION IN VIET NAM (2021-2026) THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO CONDUCT COMMUNITY BASED SEA TURTLE CONSERVATION PROGRAMS ALONG SELECT COASTAL PROVINCES AND COMMUNITIES WHERE NESTING STILL OCCURS AND TO WORK WITH COMMUNITIES AND FISHERMAN TO REDUCE BYCATCH. THE INTENTION OF THIS PROJECT IS TO PROTECT NESTS AND NESTING FEMALES FROM POACHING. ACTIVITIES INCLUDE 1. CONDUCTING COMMUNITY BASED SURVEYS TO PROTECT NESTS ALONG 70 KM OF NESTING BEACHES IN SIX PROVINCES AS WELL AS WORKING WITH FISHERMEN TO SAFELY RELEASE SEA TURTLES ACCIDENTLY CAPTURED IN COASTAL FISHERIES 2. RECRUITING, TRAINING, AND FIELDING APPROXIMATELY 25 VOLUNTEERS TO SUPPORT RANGERS AT CON DAO NATIONAL PARK TO PATROL REMOTE BEACHES AND PROTECT APPROXIMATELY 1,000 GREEN TURTLE NESTS AND 250 NESTING FEMALES 3. WORK WITH VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT TO FACILITATE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NATIONAL CONSERVATION ACTION PLAN FOR MARINE TURTLES AND 4. CONDUCTING OUTREACH AND EDUCATION ACTIVITIES WITH COMMUNITIES, FISHERMAN AND MORE BROADLY THE VIETNAMESE PUBLIC.
Building National Capacity to Combat Wildlife Trafficking in Vietnam (1) establishing a multidisciplinary masters course in combating the illegal wildlife trade, in partnership with the University of Vinh (Vinh City, Nghe An Province), starting with two short courses for Masters students and appropriate NGO and government staff in 2020 and 2021; (2) facilitating work placements for course participants by partnering with wildlife conservation and enforcement organizations; and (3) coordinating course participants research projects directly related to aspects of the illegal wildlife trade.
TAKING ACTION TO COMBAT THE ILLEGAL TRADE AND EXPLOITATION OF MARINE TURTLES IN VIETNAM, PHASE II THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO SUPPORT IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NATIONAL MARINE TURTLE CONSERVATION PLAN OF VIETNAM AND TO BUILD CAPACITY FOR THE VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT TO RESPOND TO ILLEGAL SEA TURTLE TRAFFICKING. PROJECT ACTIVITIES INCLUDE 1 WORKING CLOSELY WITHIN THE DIRECTORATE OF FISHERIES TO FACILITATE IMPLEMENTATION OF CONSERVATION ACTIONS IDENTIFIED IN THE ACTION PLAN, SUCH AS ORGANIZING AND HOLDING WORKSHOPS WITH STAKEHOLDERS TO DEVELOP TIMELINES AND COMMITMENTS FOR SPECIFIC CONSERVATION ACTIONS IDENTIFIED IN THE PLAN 2 CONDUCT ANNUAL MARKET SURVEYS IN TRADE HOTSPOTS LIKE HANOI, HO CHI MINH CITY, NHA TRANG, DAN NANG, CON DAO ISLAND, AND PHU QUOC ISLAND 3 IMPLEMENTING AN AWARENESS CAMPAIGN TARGETED TOWARDS THE FISHING INDUSTRY AND 4 CONDUCTING TRAINING WORKSHOPS WITH THE GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES AND SCIENTIFIC AGENCIES ON THE ELEMENTS OF THE SHELLBANK DATABASE, INCLUDING NEW IDENTIFICATION, INDICTMENT AND INVESTIGATION TECHNOLOGIES.
Great Apes Conservation Fund This grant will build political will and institutional capacity for the successful implementation of enforcement campaigns aimed at eliminating the illegal trade in yellow-cheeked crested gibbons (Nomascus gabriellae) and other endangered species in Southern Vietnam. The Recipient will do this by: (a) increasing the capacity of the Ho Chi Minh City Forest Protection Department and Environmental Police in response, strategic enforcement operations and case investigations relating to the illegal wildlife trade; (b) improving methods and formalizing systems for the ongoing monitoring of illegal consumption of wildlife in retail establishments; (c) supporting the development of a local volunteer group Action for Wildlife Organization; and (d) building political will in the HCMC metropolitan area for wildlife crime enforcement operations, resulting prosecutions and placement of confiscated wildlife, through collaboration on a high-level political communication campaign.
Marine Turtle Conservation Fund Support community based marine turtle nesting beach conservation in Viet Nam
Rhino & Tiger Conservation Fund The purpose of this project is to reduce the illegal trade of rhinos and tiger parts into, within and through Viet Nam, by providing Vietnamese wildlife law enforcement authorities with forensic identification techniques with which to prosecute and suppress wildlife crime. This will be done by (1) establishing wildlife forensic capacity at the laboratories of the Viet Nam CITES scientific authority; (2) transferring the latest DNA analysis techniques relating to rhino and tiger identification; (3) developing an individual DNA database of tigers in Viet Nam for subsequent trade control; (4) training enforcement officers in forensic evidence handling as part of wildlife crime investigations; and (5) developing the framework for wildlife forensic delivery within Viet Nam and the ASEAN region. These objectives will be achieved during the project lifetime through a combination of hands on laboratory training, forensic method implementation, enforcement workshops and dissemination.
Conservation of the Northern White-cheeked Crested Gibbon in Pu Mat National Park, Vietnam The project will accomplish the following objectives to help secure the biodiversity values of Pu Mat National park focusing on the critically endangered northern white-cheeked gibbon (Nomascus leucogenys) and establish "no kill" zones int the Pu Mat National Park by: (1) Identifying key locations for nothern white-cheeked gibbons and Saola for protection within Pu Mat National Park by performing a desktop study and engaging Saola Technical Working Group. (2) Engaging local communities in forest protection by setting up community-based patrolling and training in surrounding villages. (3) Supporting imporovement of enforcement model of Pu Mat National Park by training rangers in SMART.
Asian Elephant Conservation Fund The purpose of this project is to strengthen protected area management and law enforcement in Yok Don National Park, Vietnam, and establish trans-boundary relationships for developing cooperative species conservation law enforcement between Yok Don National Park, Vietnam, and Mondulkiri Protected Forest, Cambodia
Support for community based marine turtle nesting beach conservation and bycatch reduction in Vietnam. Support for community based marine turtle nesting beach conservation and bycatch reduction in Vietnam.
Strengthening conservation of the northern yellow-cheeked gibbon Nomascus annamensis..and the establishment of community-based monitoring group on the eastern slope of the Central..Annamites, Vietnam. The purpose of this project is to provide accurate information on the status of the gibbons of this region, encourage involvement of local people in gibbon monitoring and conservation, and facilitate establishment of new protected areas in the region. This will be done by: 1) establishing community-based monitoring and patrol teams; 2) providing training on gibbon survey techniques; 3) estimating the population size of gibbons and identifying key sites for conservation of gibbons and other endangered primates; 4) providing training on identification of globally threatened and most commonly traded species in the region; and 5) conducting an awareness raising program in secondary schools and villages in two districts.
Critically Endangered Animals-International Grants Conservation of the Tonkin snub-nosed monkey in Quan Ba District.
Marine Turtles ConservationFund-Species Conservation Grant Immediate action to reduce the commercial trade of Marine Turtles in Vietnam
Strengthening the Foundations for Long-term Conservation of the Critically Endangered Western Black Crested Gibbon (Nomascus concolor) in Vietnam The western black crested gibbon, Nomascus concolor, once common in southern China, northern Vietnam and Eastern Laos, is now Critically Endangered. It has been reduced to a few patches of primary forests, mostly due to tremendous deforestation, illegal hunting and wildlife trade, and weak law enforcement. In Vietnam, the contiguous forest block of Mu Cang Chai Species Habitat Conservation Area (MCC SHCA) and the Muong La Nature Reserve (ML NR) represent the countrys last viable population. The latest assessment was in 2014, when there were at least 19 groups around 80 gibbons (of a global population of fewer than 1,400). FFI discovered this population of N. concolor in 1999, with support from USFWS Great Ape Conservation Fund. The specific project objectives are: (1) Secure and scale up, and possibly operationalize, the model of Payment for Environmental Services finance for community-based conservation across this forest complex; (2) Maintain/improve community-based forest protection and monitoring activities; and, (3) Develop a coordinated, holistic and sustainable roadmap for long-term gibbon conservation through a highly participatory and pragmatic Species Action Plan.
Great Apes Conservation Fund "The purpose of this proposal is to disrupt and dismantle the networks trading yellow-cheeked crested gibbons and other endangered species in the Ho Chi Minh City Metropolitan Area. This will be done by: 1) strengthening enforcement on wildlife crimes in the Ho Chi Minh City Metropolitan Area (i.e. increased number of crimes/violations detected, people arrested and prosecuted, and increased revenue from fines); 2) strengthening regulation and management of private zoos and living collections of endangered wildlife in Vietnam; 3) generating intelligence and information for monitoring key wildlife networks, individuals and scale of their operation in the Ho Chi Minh City Metropolitan Area; and 4) strengthening capacity of frontline enforcement officers (forest protection department, police, border security and customs) in the detection and prevention of wildlife crimes...Specifically, this will be done by: 1) enhancing and upgrading the web-based www.giamdinhloai.vn platform to provide increased specimen identification, legal support and public reports to frontline enforcement officers; 2) collaborating with the CITES MA to develop plans on strengthening management and regulation of private zoos and living collections of wildlife in Vietnam (including hosting a meeting of local government agencies, zoos and collectors to develop suggestions for improvement of policies and regulations to be shared with relevant ministries); and 3) refining, focusing and formalizing successful survey methodologies on illegal consumption of wildlife to create a monitoring system for wildlife consumption and law enforcement..."
CONSERVATION OF PRIORITY TORTOISE AND FRESHWATER TURTLE SPECIES IN VIETNAM The purpose of this project is to help conserve seven of the worlds most critically endangered species, one of which is Swinhoes.softshell turtle. Activities include: (1) securing a breeding group for the Swinhoes softshell turtle with only three known living.animals, two in the wild and one in a zoo in China; (2) promoting conservation of the Indochinese box turtle in Pumat National.Park; (3) bolstering a population of Bourrets box turtle through reintroduction; (4) initiating steps to create an expanded protected.area for the southern Vietnamese box turtle; (5) working to reestablish a wild population of the endemic Vietnamese pond turtle;.(6) determining the distribution of Zhous box turtle in northern Vietnam, which is only known from one captive specimen (7).identifying nesting sites for the Asian giant softshell turtle in Sekong River Basin, Lao PDR
Building National Capacity to Combat Wildlife Trafficking in Vietnam THE BIODIVERSITY, CULTURE, ECONOMY AND LOCATION OF VIETNAM H
Rhino & Tiger Conservation Fund "The purpose of this proposal is to strengthen the Vietnamese criminal justice system to more effectively prevent, detect and suppress Vietnamese citizens involved in illegal rhino horn trade, thereby reducing the threat of illegal trafficking to the survival of rhino species. This will be done by: 1) generating more detailed profiles on known traders, and new information on major rhino horn traders and their networks for law enforcement action; 2) catalyzing progress and providing technical support to ongoing investigations and prosecutions into open cases of rhino horn crimes by police and prosecutors; 3) increasing understanding and building consensus within local civil society groups, private and public sector key opinion leaders and the media on tackling illegal rhino horn trade in Vietnam; and 4) increasing local media coverage on illegal rhino horn trade issues and the wildlife crime suppression efforts of both Vietnam and enforcement agencies of other nations...Specifically this will be done by: (1) conducting surveys into illegal rhino horn trade networks; (2) carrying out a meeting for international and domestic LE agencies to review on-going rhino horn violation cases, and lend pressure to urge progress; (3) carrying out a roundtable meeting with Vietnamese prosecutors to review the current legal framework, (4) identifying loopholes and overcoming difficulties in processing illegal rhino horn trade related cases; (5) carrying out informal meetings for key opinion leaders, media, and local civil society to leverage support for rhino conservation and a strong anti-trade/consumption voice in Vietnam; (6) providing technical support to the CITES MA for report preparation and CoP16 decision implementation, including returning seized rhino horn or samples to South Africa for forensic analysis; (7) increasing local media coverage on illegal rhino horn trade issues by the distribution (and translation where necessary) of information through communication channels