Country Snapshot - Vietnam
Draft for Public Consultations in Preparation for the "Global Tiger Workshop"
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TCL - Tiger Conservation Landscapes
Status of National Tiger Action Plan
Available: Yes
Approval date: 2005
Approval authority: Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development, Government of Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Revision expected: Yes
Key Tiger-Related Statistics
Estimated number of tigers: less then 100 *
* Estimated number of ADULT tigers, source: 2009 IUCN Red List http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/15955/0
Subspecies: Indochinese Tiger
Number of Tiger Conservation Landscapes (TCLs) identified: 7
Area of TCL: 36,752 km2
Area of TCL under protection: 5,143 km2
*This estimate is for the Indochinese subspecies occurring in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam , but the exact number in Vietnam remains unverified.
Priority Issues and Actions
(from Existing National Tiger Action Plan and/
or Other Sources)
- Improvement in wildlife crime control
- Amelioration of human-wildlife conflicts
- Framework for tiger monitoring
- Improvement in Protected Area management, infrastructure and equipment
- Trans-boundary cooperation with Laos and Cambodia
- Averting threats from development infrastructure
- Public awareness on tiger trade ban
Key National Stakeholders
Main Government Agencies: Nature Conservation Division, Forest Protection Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
Main Non-governmental Groups: Education for Nature-Vietnam, World Wildlife Fund
Country Membership
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES): Yes
Global Tiger Forum: Yes
Opportunities for Early Action
- Capacity-building for detection of trade and trafficking
- Developing framework for tiger monitoring
- Improvement in Protected Area management, infrastructure and equipment
- Public awareness programs on tiger trade ban
Comment by GTI Admin of Global Tiger Initiative
November 12, 2009 @ 5:06 pm
The Google Maps application used on the GTI site has undergone some work on map names and places for some country maps. The maps for Russia, Vietnam, and China have now been updated so that city names are provided in the official national language and also romanized, as applicable. As for tiger populations, the earlier estimated figures did cause some confusion. We are now using official estimates of Adult tigers in country populations, according to the 2009 IUCN published Red List numbers.
Comment by Crispian A Barlow of Ranger Advisor, FPD Vietnam
November 12, 2009 @ 5:06 pm
With the maps in general, is it possible to include English names (in brackets?) ? For east Russia, parts of China etc its hard to keep track of affairs when we cant find the places on the map. secondly, from my work here with FPD and Environmental Police, they believe that there are only about 50 Tigers left in Vn (and 6 of those are already known to be dead!!!)