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Sau hơn 6 năm bị vướng bẫy rồi được Trung tâm bảo tồn Voi cùng Vườn quốc gia Yok Đôn phối hợp cứu hộ, chăm sóc vết thương để thả về rừng, voi Cu Sứt gần đây đã trở lại vùng rừng khộp giữa 2 tỉnh Đắk Lắk-Đắk Nông, vẫn với cái chân đau vẫn chưa lành. Trung tâm bảo tồn voi Đắk Lắk đã lên kế hoạch lần thứ 2 cứu hộ chú voi hoang dã.
Tiếp tục đọc “Voi Cu Sứt và những chiếc bẫy thú rừng tàn ác”
VNN – Update: July, 13/2018 – 18:05
ĐẮK LẮK — As of this month, Yok Đôn National Park will no longer offer elephant riding for tourists visiting the Central Highland province of Đắk Lắk.
Under an agreement signed by the national park and Animals Asia Foundation on Friday, the park committed to develop an alternative tourism activity designed around watching elephants in social groups within an elephant sanctuary. This will help to move the region away from elephant-riding tourism towards an animal-friendly alternative. Tiếp tục đọc “Yok Đôn National Park ends elephant riding”
Yok Đôn National Park’s management board in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk on Friday has coordinated with Buôn Đôn District police to start investigation into a large-scale deforestation inside the park.
The site of deforestation in Yok Đôn National Park. — Photo dantri.com.vn
The deforestation was brought to the notice of the board on January 26 after patrol officers of forestry protection office No 8, under the Yok Đôn National Park, came across 45cu.m of deforested land for timber, Phạm Tuấn Linh, acting director of the management board, told dantri.com.vn online newspaper.
The area in question is the bordering belt of Sub-zone 408, currently managed by border-guard station 741, under Đắk Lắk Province’s Border-Guard Command. Trespassing is prohibited in the area. Tiếp tục đọc “Investigation begins into deforestation inside national park”
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| A wild elephant enters the field of a resident in the southern province of Đồng Nai. The reduced and degraded habitats in the province ave resulted in lack of food. – Photo vtv.vn |
Viet Nam News ĐỒNG NAI — Wild elephant habitats in the southern province of Đồng Nai are being reduced and degraded, leading to a lack of food and more conflicts between animals and humans, according to local authorities.
Experts say the elephant requires a vast habitat but its living space has been shrunk due to human encroachment into the forest. Local foresters in Đồng Nai say the natural habitat for wild Asian elephants has shrunk from 50,000ha in the 1990s to 34,000ha in 2009. Tiếp tục đọc “Hungry wild elephants trash crops, property”
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