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Sustainability Leaders’ Summit 2024: THE GREEN GROWTH FUTURE

In order to create an open space for discussion and explore directions in the trend of sustainable development within the business community, Forbes Vietnam is organizing the THE GREEN GROWTH FUTURE development conference. The conference gathers experts and leaders from businesses leading the market to discuss current topics on low-carbon economies, climate change mitigation, and the path toward sustainable development. PanNature Members: Use code REF for a 30% discount (apply for the standard ticket)

Empowering Conservation: Lessons Learned at the ICCA Regional Assembly

PanNature actively supports community-led conservation efforts, and our participation in the 5th ICCA Southeast Asia Regional Assembly (March 3rd-8th, 2024) exemplifies this commitment. The Assembly brought together passionate individuals from across Southeast Asia, united in their mission to protect nature and empower indigenous communities.

Breaking Chains: Collaborative Strategies to Combat the Illegal Trade of Wildlife

The Partners Against Wildlife Crimes Project, coordinated by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and supported by the European Union, held its last workshop in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from February 19–21. The purpose of the gathering was to celebrate the project's accomplishments and to exchange lessons learned among partners. Through the use of civil society alliances to support government action, the project aims to disrupt unlawful supply chains for Siamese rosewood, tigers, Asian elephants, and freshwater turtles in the Greater Mekong, Malaysia, and China.

Protecting Our Planet: PanNature Supports the Global Deal for Nature

Our planet's incredible diversity of life faces unprecedented threats. To secure a future where this abundance thrives, we need immediate and decisive action. The Global Deal for Nature (GDN) offers a beacon of hope. This science-based plan serves as a roadmap for safeguarding Earth's remarkable variety of living creatures.

Collaborative actions on illegal wildlife trade with Vietnamese journalists.

Illegal wildlife trade is a major conservation problem in Vietnam.  As a mitigating strategy, PanNature organized 19 field media investigation trips across 23 provinces in the country, as well as one trip across the Vietnam-Laos border, accompanied by more than 60 journalists.  Journalists were able to observe tragedies with wildlife species firsthand. This effort generated more than 110 newspaper articles and stories, raising awareness of the issue among the public.

Amending 2010 Mineral Law a key task to effectively manage resources

Director of the People and Nature Reconciliation (PanNature) Trinh Le Nguyen said mineral resources were public assets owned by the entire people. Thus, local people in the area that mining activities happened had the right to know specific information about the mine, what type of minerals, and who was assigned to exploit them by the State and local authorities, and what benefits the State, businesses and communities would enjoy from the mining activities, he said.

Field trips for our partners to PanNature’s field operation in Van Ho

In October 2023, PanNature organized a field trip for our partners of the Green Livelihood Alliance program (GLA2), including the Southern Institute of Ecology and the Tropical Forestry Research Center (Trobenpos), to Van Ho district, Son La province to visit the agricultural and forestry production model adapting to climate change. The tour was sweaty, but it yielded many pleasant fruits from PanNature's operations that had been cultivated in Van Ho for many years.

Every Dong Matters: It’s time the Vietnamese public joined hands for the conservation of nature.

With the widespread of the Internet, mobile applications, and online banking, online donation is now quite convenient for many Vietnamese. Several local companies have pioneered in developing platforms for online donation for domestic customers. PanNature has received great support from major local platforms to pilot online crow fundraising, including Momo, GiveNow, and ThienNguyen (a service of the Military Bank). 

Grassroots Development and Sustainable Development: A View from Voice of Farmers Project

Along with national programs on sustainable development and climate change response, small-scale projects with a bottom-up approach also play an essential role in implementing sustainable development goals. The paper analyzes the concepts of grassroots development and sustainable development based on a bottom-up climate change mitigation and adaptation project implemented in two Northwest provinces of Vietnam.
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