EU stumps up $11mln for Greater Mekong wildlife conservation
The European Union (EU) has teamed up with wildlife and conservation groups in the Greater Mekong region, Malaysia, and China to try and disrupt the flow of illegally trafficked wildlife through the region.
The €10 million (about $11.14 million) project which will run through until December 2022 will see the World Conservation Society (WCS) and Pan Nature working in close cooperation with Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security’s (MPS) Environmental Crime Prevention Agency (ECPA) and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment’s (MNREs) Biodiversity Conservation Agency (BCA).
In 2016 the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) warned that the number of wild tigers in Vietnam may be less than five individuals, down from 30 in 2011, and was critically endangered. Following the death of the Vietnam’s last rhinoceros in 2010 it has been predicted that the tiger could be Vietnam’s next large mammal to be listed as extinct in the wild.
Sreypov Men
