Trang chủIn order to further promote the implementation of the 2008 Biodiversity Law; Decision No. 1623/QD-TTg dated December 27, 2022, of the Prime Minister approving the Project on preventing and combating biodiversity crimes until 2030, with a vision to 2050; Directive No. 29/CT-TTg dated July 23, 2020, of the Prime Minister on some urgent solutions for managing wild animal species; Directive No. 42/CT-TTg dated December 8, 2020, of the Prime Minister on strengthening the management and control of invasive alien species; and Directive No. 04/CT-TTg dated May 17, 2022, of the Prime Minister on some urgent tasks and solutions for the conservation of wild and migratory birds in Vietnam; The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment issued Official Letter No. 9231/BNNMT-BTTN dated November 18, 2025, requesting ministries, sectors, and People’s Committees of provinces and centrally-administered cities to direct and implement several measures during the end of the year, which is a peak period for violations of laws on wildlife protection, with the following contents:
- Direct media agencies to strengthen reporting and broadcasting of messages, reports, and news bulletins promoting laws on biodiversity conservation, control of invasive alien species, protection of endangered, rare, and precious wild species; conservation of wild and migratory birds in Vietnam; requiring officials, civil servants, workers, and citizens not to participate in hunting, catching, buying, selling, transporting, slaughtering, consuming, storing, or advertising wild animals and migratory birds illegally; and not to breed, cultivate, buy, sell, or release invasive alien species. 1. Do not purchase birds for release as this is an act of aiding and abetting illegal hunting and trapping of wild birds.
- Instruct law enforcement agencies: forest rangers, fisheries inspectors, market management, customs, border guards, coast guard, and police to strengthen inter-agency coordination, conduct regular inspections and checks of restaurants, wildlife breeding and trading establishments, wild bird markets, key goods transportation routes, and ringleaders involved in hunting, catching, trading, transporting, and consuming wild animals and migratory birds; prevent illegal hunting, catching, trading, transporting, and consuming and strictly punish violations of laws on the protection of wild animals, plants, and migratory birds in Vietnam; implement measures to prevent diseases originating from wild animals and migratory birds.
- Strengthen inspection and control of activities related to breeding, cultivating, trading, and releasing invasive alien species into the natural environment, and strictly punish violations.