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MINISTRY OF FORESTRY      SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
                          Independence-Freedom-Happiness

No.551 LN/KL              Hanoi, 21 March 1994

Re: Promoting Wildlife Protection

To: People's Committees ................

Wildlife is the valuable resource of our country. To protect
wildlife is one important task in conserving nature,
biodiversity and environment which is a concern of the
entire world.

In order to protect this precious resource, the Government
has declared many documents, laws, but so far, the trading
and hunting of wildlife and their by-products are not
strictly seized, some where the status is very serious. Many
wildlife species are endangered.

With the aim of strictly implementing the law on forest
protection and development dated 19 August 1991; the
Resolution 18-HDBT dated 17 January 1992 of the Government
regarding the list of rare and precious species of wild
fauna and flora and the regulation to manage and protect;
the Instruction 130-TTg dated 27 March 1993 of Prime
Minister for managing and protecting rare and precious
species; the official joining of CITES of the Government of
Vietnam; and in order to protect sustainably use wildlife
resources, Ministry of Forestry suggest esteemed People's
Committee:

1. Organise to spread awareness to people about the benefit
and value of wildlife, to disseminate expansively and
intensively the law, resolution, instruction of Government
regarding the proper management, protection, exploitation
and utilisation of wildlife resources.

2. Instruct the forestry institutions, Forest Protection
Department, Customs Office, tax services, and market
management of the province:

- Prohibit in hotels, restaurants to advertise and serve the
food cooked from wildlife or their products.

- Prohibit producing and selling products made of mammal
skin, stuffed specimens and the products of wildlife
collected from nature such as: horn, antler, claw, nail,
bone and skin, etc. especially the products made of ivory,
turtle shell, tiger, panther fur, ox horn, min horn, bubalus
bubalis, rhinoceros, bovid, etc.

- Strictly control and seize the illegal trading wildlife,
especially in domestic market and transfer through frontier,
demobilise the centre for illegal trade in wildlife.

- Severely treat the case of illegal hunting, trading
wildlife and their by-products.

Quickly transfer live specimens which have been confiscated
to the zoos at locality or Saigon, Hanoi zoos, national
parks or organise to reintroduce to forest, etc.

3. Encourage the institution, individual to conduct farming
of wildlife for use in domestic market or export. The
exporter who exports captive bred individuals of the 2nd
generation will be given a favoured policy.

4. The exporting or importing of wild vegetation and animal
and their products should observe the provisions of CITES,
the regulations of the Government of Vietnam and should
obtain the export permit from the Ministry of Forestry.

Minister of Forestry
Nguyen Quang Ha (signed)

Addressed to:

- People's Committees of provinces and cities

- Government Offices

- Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (MoSTE)

- Ministry of Commerce (for coordination)

- Customs Department (for coordination) - Ministry of
Finance (Tax Department)

- Provincial Forestry and Agro-forestry Departments

- Provincial Forestry Protection Departments

- National Parks

- All Departments of Ministry of Forestry (MoF)

- NAFORIMEX I, II, III

- File

Following, a series of directives from provincial forest
protection departments:

No. 100.KL dated 13 June 1994 of Ha Tinh Forest Protection
Department.

No. 182/BVR date 6 May 1994 of Tuyen Quang Forest Protection
Department.

No. 12/CT-UB dated 12 May 1994 of Kon Tum People's
Committee.

No. 14/CT-UB dated 25 May 1994 of Dak Lak People's
Committee.

No. 10/CT dated 25 April 1994 of Vinh Phu People's
Committee.


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