World Wildlife Fund (WWF) officials discovered a bullet embedded in the leg bone a rare rhino reported to have died naturally in Cat Tien National Park.
Viet Nam has one of the world’s richest biodiversities and some of its rarest and most valuable animals, according to Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Hua Duc Nhi.
Pangolins are hunted even in a national park. Wildcats are shot by hunters in a biosphere. Escaping from cages, many wild animals can’t adapt themselves back to forest. This report excerpts parts of three articles in a VietNamNet investigative series.
It took VietNamNet reporters several months of tracking down information and making contacts before, after a memorable journey to Laos’ Thakhek province, they successfully infiltrated the largest tiger farm in Southeast Asia.