In order to prevent and fight effectively the organized crime of selling ivory, rhino horn and products made from endangered and rare wild animals, on September 17, 2016, the Prime Minister issued the Directive No. 28/CT-TTg on urgent solutions for preventing and fighting the violation of wild animals against the law.
In this Directive, the Prime Minister requests ministries, bodies and provincial People’s Committees to continue implementing the Directive No, 03/CT-TTg in a stringent manner, provincial People’s Committees direct local agencies to inspect and penalize strictly the trafficking of ivory and rhino horn against the law. Inspections shall aim attention at traditional craft villages, processing facilities, souvenir shops at tourist spots or in airports and piers, stores selling and preparing traditional medicine, etc. The result of remedial activities shall be published on mass media. Heads of local executive committees of Vietnam Communist Party and local authorities shall be held responsible to the Prime Minister for the infractions occurring in their administrative areas. The Ministry of Public Security leads and cooperates with the Ministry of National defense, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development, Ministry of Natural resources and Environment in investigating and obliterating transnational networks of organized crimes of selling, purchasing, hoarding, trafficking, exporting, importing, re-exporting, importing temporarily then re-exporting specimens of wild animals and plants, especially ivory and rhino horn. It shall lead and cooperate with the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development and Ministry of Natural resources and Environment in inspecting, at a more intensive level, and penalizing strictly the illegal domestic sale, advertising and consumption of specimens of ivory and rhino horn.
