AR-News: (Asia) Mekong Basin nations to fight poachers

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Friday 2nd July, 2004
 

Six countries in Asia's Mekong Basin region plan to  jointly fight poaching 
and the selling of wild animals, the Vietnam News Agency  reported.

The countries are Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar  (formerly 
Burma) and China.

The report said underground routes and a  variety of methods that deceive 
forest rangers and enforcement authorities are  used in the illegal sales.

Poachers and their agents hide animals in  trunks of cars and under goods in 
large trucks or vans, and make false  declarations on export permits and 
certifications.

Large networks and  syndicates are often employed, involving several groups 
of people, from hunters  to collectors in rural areas, up to middlemen and 
high-level traders in urban  centers, said Angie Woo of the World Wildlife Fund.

Illegal and  unsustainable trade are depleting the rivers, mountains and 
plains of the Mekong  Basin of invaluable natural resources, Woo said.




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