Vietnamese transport

Thirty-five of Viet Nam’s biggest transport and logistic companies are following a zero threshold towards wildlife trafficking © VISITORS —Thirty-five of Viet Nam’s biggest transportation and logistic organizations will be ready to do their particular part to prevent wildlife smuggling after a risk-management workshop held today, organized by TRAFFIC, WWF, the Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce and business (VCCI) additionally the Viet Nam Automobile transport Association (VATA).

As wildlife trafficking develops in scope and elegance, transport and logistics companies, from airlines to courier services, tend to be more and more finding on their own susceptible to getting area of the criminal trade chain.

The workshop highlighted the reputational and appropriate dangers wildlife trafficking presents to move and logistics organizations, and aided to recognize the steps organizations takes to combat these types of trade and shield their organization's brand name.

“Criminals find covert methods to move their particular illicit goods between suppliers, purchasers and middlemen, frequently utilizing unwitting transport and logistic companies to do so, ” said Dr. Van Ngoc Thinh, WWF-Viet Nam Director.

“By being aware of and mitigating the possibility of assisting this unlawful activity, transport and logistic companies can protect both their reputation and endangered species eg rhinos."

The workshop, funded by Agence Française de Développement (AFD), offered an opportunity for the companies collaboratively to explore guidelines and determine highly-effective solutions to difficulties and dangers associated with unlawful wildlife trade. The businesses left the workshop with the capacity to enforce and advertise their particular zero threshold of jeopardized species trafficking.

“Risk administration is a crucial part of a successful and renewable company. By following a zero threshold towards wildlife trafficking, these businesses tend to be making a strategic go on to protect by themselves from dangers including arrests, fines also legal repurcussions, as well as risks with their brand name stability and reputation. This type of forward reasoning is making such companies leaders in their area, ” said Nguyen Van Thanh, Chairman of VATA.

Most organizations pledged not only to integrate wildlife defense into their business practices, but also to encourage their customers and staff to generally share their particular zero threshold towards put at risk wildlife consumption.

“Thanks to worldwide and domestic stress to end wildlife trafficking, consumers now inside your find a way and motivation to put up organizations in charge of their particular role in combatting wildlife crime, ” stated Madelon Willemsen, Head of Office for TRAFFIC in Viet Nam.

“Those Vietnamese businesses using active actions to guard put at risk wildlife can build a stronger reputation among customers desperate to help honest business techniques.”

TRAFFIC and WWF have jointly caused the logistics sector to handle the transportation of illegal wildlife items through a few collaborative efforts. TRAFFIC and WWF are committed to continuing this engagement with all the transport sector, as collaborative methods are key to effectively decreasing the unlawful trade in wildlife.

TRAFFIC's run customer behavior modification is supported in part because of the German Polifund measure, implemented because of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) for the German Federal Ministry for financial Cooperation and developing (BMZ).

For more info, be sure to contact:

TRAFFIC in Viet Nam
Nguyen Do Thu Minh, Project Officer