The exhibition and seminar “Born with horns”

Rhinoceros are among the world’s most threatened wildlife. Habitat loss, hunting and wildlife trafficking are the key drivers that lead many species to become extinct. Rhinos are being hunted mostly for their horns that use for Chinese traditional medicine. The last known Vietnamese rhino (Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus) was hunted in 2010 and its horn removed by poachers. Vietnam lost its last rhino because of poaching, however, our country has given its rhinos protection effort, a lot of strong actions to protect rhinos are implementing at the moment through enhancing law enforcement and building and maintaining good capacity for the relevant agency to keep the fight against wildlife and rhino horns trafficking in and through Vietnam; raising public’s awareness to change the public’s perception about using rhino horns and products from wildlife.

Under our effort to promote the love of nature, reinforce public’s knowledge on endangered wildlife and raising public’s responsibility toward nature conservation especially young generation on October 28, 2019, Center for Nature Conservation and Development (CCD) supported Young Conservationists Club (a students’ club of Vietnam University of Forestry) to organize an exhibition and seminar “Born with horns” to convey messages of protect wildlife and endangered species from the brink of extinction. The exhibition was highly appreciated by the students and attracted good attention from the local people in the surrounding areas.

CCD implementing robust conservation programs for endangered species on the ground and supporting law enforcement agencies in implement more effective combatting wildlife trafficking efforts to prevent and deter wildlife hunting, trafficking and consumption of wildlife in Vietnam with the goal of zero poachings and trafficking of wildlife in 2030.