Kalaweit Sanctuary, Borneo: Live Crocodile Rescue Video

En Juin 2009, le sorcier du village Tumbang Samba donnait son crocodile (élevé pendant 17 ans), à Kalaweit… La réception de ce reptile par Kalaweit avait été vécue comme un symbole par les habitants de cette localité, car ce crocodile était connu de tous...

Aujourd’hui le sorcier et sa famille portent le message de Kalaweit. Hier nous avons récupéré un gibbon (« Robin »), à Tumbang Samba, sauvé grâce au soutien de ce vieil homme et de sa famille.



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Betrayal by Vietnamese Wildlife farms

Restaurant workers skinning a crocodile from a Wildlife farm that pretends to protect endangered species (Image: AFP/Getty Images)

WILDLIFE farms are supposed to promote conservation by providing a sustainable alternative to hunting animals in the wild. But those in Vietnam are having exactly the opposite effect, says a study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in New York.

Over the past two decades, dozens of commercial wildlife farms have sprung up in Vietnam. WCS investigators and Vietnamese officials who visited 78 farms undercover found that half had taken original breeding stock from wild populations, and 42 per cent were still doing so.

Animals farmed include snakes, turtles, crocodiles and monkeys. Worst affected are species such as tigers and bears, whose body parts or secretions are valued in traditional medicine. Not only are they slow to breed, but farms can also be used to launder products from animals killed in the wild.

Wildlife farmers should have to prove the source of their animals, and penalties for breaching wildlife laws should be increased, the WCS concludes.