Video encourages people to avoid using products from wild animals
On the occasion of World Wildlife Day on March 3, the non-governmental organisation Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV) launched a short film called “Su lua chon sang suot” (A smart choice), to promote the use of modern medicine instead of the consumption of products from wild animals to treat ailments.
Hanoi(VNA) - On the occasion of World Wildlife Day on March 3, the non-governmentalorganisation Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV) launched a short film called “Sulua chon sang suot” (A smart choice), to promote the use of modern medicineinstead of the consumption of products from wild animals to treat ailments.
ENV DeputyDirector Nguyen Thi Phuong Dung said that, via the film, it is calling for an endto wildlife poaching, trade, and consumption in Vietnam, as these acts causedamage to both nature and human beings.
According to the WorldHealth Organisation (WHO), about 70 percent of infectious diseases affectinghumans over the last 30 years originated from animals, such as HIV/AIDS, avianinfluenza (H5N1), swine flu (H1N1), severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS),Ebola, and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).
ENV has so farworked with the Ministry of Health to step up communications campaigns to raisepublic awareness about the danger of hunting, trading, consuming, and having contactwith wild animals.
It has made greatefforts over the past decade to end the illegal wildlife trade at traditionalmedicine businesses.
Most recently, itsent information to nearly 2,300 shops selling traditional medicines nationwideregarding legal regulations on wildlife, encouraging pharmacists, physicians,and doctors to use herbal medicines to cure diseases./.
Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga, head of the Permanent Vietnam Mission to the United Nations, presented five proposals to eradicate wildlife trade during an event on the fringe of a ceremony on March 3.
World Wildlife Day is celebrated this year under the theme 'Sustaining all Life on Earth', highlighting the unique place of wild fauna and flora as essential components of the world’s biodiversity, as well as a key pillar of livelihoods for people, particularly among communities that live close to nature.
The detection and settlement of wildlife crimes in Vietnam have recoded strides over the last five years, according to Deputy Director of the Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV) Bui Thi Ha.
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A screenshot from the ENV short film. 
