Vietnam is strengthening efforts to stop wildlife smuggling and illegal logging, in order to protect the nations forests and biodiversity, as well as that of neighboring countries.
Alarmed by reports that their chainsaws were being used to decimate Cambodian forests, manufacturer STIHL looked up the serial numbers of chainsaws confiscated by Forestry officials in Cambodia and confirmed that all of them were counterfeit.
Government scientists from ASEAN, together with colleagues from Africa, Europe and South America, finish a two week special training course today on tracking wildlife criminals, put on by a US Federal Law Enforcement Laboratory.