ENVIRONMENT

According to a report by the International Wildlife Conservation Organization (FFI), elephant herds in Vietnam have decreased by thousands of individuals. On April 26, in Quy Chau district, Nghe An, FFI in collaboration with Pu Mat National Park organized a workshop to evaluate elephant conservation and solutions to reduce elephant conflicts in Nghe An province. At the workshop, FFI representatives said that in the 1990s, Vietnam had about 2,000 elephants, but by 2013 there were only about 130. Elephants are distributed mainly in 8 provinces, including: Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Nam, Dak Lak, Lam Dong, Dong Nai, Binh Phuoc…