9th Annual Conference of Wild Animal Rescue Network takes place in Ninh Binh

Under theme "Wildlife Rescuing, Rehabilitation and Release", the conference brought together 70 experts from 15 countries and territories in the Southeast Asian region.

Participants shared and exchanged knowledge and experience in preserving wild animals.

Currently, the national park is home to three rescue facilities, the Endangered Primate Rescue Center, the Turtle Rescue Center, and the Small Carnivore and Pangolin Rescue Center. It nears a large bear sanctuary which is currently under construction and will house Asian black bears.

Many delegates pointed to the necessity to pay more attention to the work of releasing wild animals into nature after they were rescued and protecting their natural habitat as well as raising the number of wild animals.

To do so, there must be the participation of local authority, functional agencies and people in preserving and understanding the value of wild animals.

In particular, the delegates expressed their interest in Vietnam government's campaign on soon stopping keeping bears in captivity.

WARN, an international non-governmental organization, is a network of wild animal rescue centers, wildlife law enforcement groups and officials and animal protection groups in East and South East Asia.

Currently WARN has members in Brunei, Cambodia,China, Taiwan (China), the Republic of Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam.

Translated by Nguyen Thuy