Save the Wild Tigers in Vietnam

  • by: Sue Lee
  • recipient: Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and the Vietnam Government

Please sign and share this petition in an effort to protect and save the endangered wild tigers in Vietnam, predominantly due to poaching issues, illegal trading and a dwindling habitat. Man's acts of cutting down forests for cultivable land, hydro-power plants, infrastructure, and mining is depleting their place of existence. If these practices do not stop and stricter laws regarding poaching and illegal trading, wild tigers in Viet Nam will remain endangered and extinct.

The Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources collaborated some surveys that showed that the number of wild tigers in Vietnam fell sharply, with between 27 & 47 individuals. This drastic drop in their population is due to dwindling of their habitat, issues with poaching and illegal trading of the tigers and their prey. The big cat’s natural habitat is dwindling seriously due to men’s acts of cutting down forests for cultivable land, hydro-power plants, infrastructure, and mining.

It has been reported that Vietnam's natural forests have shrunk by 43 percent in late 20th century to 17 percent in recent months. The country has realized the importance of preserving wildlife through an ordinance to ban hunting, which includes tigers; however they have not been enforcing that ban. Many foreign experts argued the breeding of tigers is detrimental to conservation efforts and may fuel the illegal trading of the species; a way to provide the gene pool to multiply the species’ population in the wild. The endangered wild tigers is a huge concern for many scientists.

Overlapping regulations, a shortage of strict punishments on tiger trading, and the laxity in domestic and international cooperation have also hampered the conservation. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung issued a decision approving a national program on tiger conservation from 2014 to 2022, which is seen as a comprehensive approach and a long-run program in the field. Building a program monitoring wild tigers, their prey as well as the breeding of this species will be a must and advanced technologies such as geographic information system (GIS) and scanning radars are believed to help out.

What the country needs to do is clampdown on illegal trading and poaching of the wild tigers; severely enforce the laws that ban such activities, while also engage to improve personnel capacity, and encourage the community’s engagement in the labor. Working with other countries, especially the neighboring ones, are crucial to saving the big cat in a sustainable way.

Let's encourage Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and the Vietnam government to strictly enforce the ban on poaching and illegal trading of the wild tigers, along with preserving their forestry habitat. Please sign and share this petition in an effort to protect and save the endangered wild tigers in Vietnam, predominantly due to poaching issues, illegal trading and a dwindling habitat. Man's acts of cutting down forests for cultivable land, hydro-power plants, infrastructure, and mining is depleting their place of existence. If these practices do not stop and stricter laws regarding poaching and illegal trading, wild tigers in Viet Nam will remain endangered and extinct.




Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and the Vietnam Government - We encourage you to please do more in saving the endangered wild tiger from extinction. Enforce your ordinance that bans poaching and illegal trading of these glorious creatures. Without stricter enforcing, violators will keep the numbers of the tigers declining in huge numbers. You also need to do something about the dwindling forestry habitat of the wild tigers. Stop destroying and removing the forests areas so that the endangered species can survive in their natural habitat.

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