12.10.2024
Great Success at the EAZA Annual conference 2024!
Ten months after the official launch of Vietnamazing within the EAZA community, the campaign Team gave a big update on the progress so far during the Annual EAZA conference 2024 in Leipzig, Germany.
At the plenary on Wednesday, almost 400 people listened to the progress the campaign had made so far for each flagship species. The ambassador of Vietnam in Germany, Vu Quang Minh, greeted the audience in a video message, thanking the EAZA community for supporting the efforts to save Vietnam´s biodiversity. Additionally, the campaign team was joined by Pham Tuan Ahn of the Viet Nature Conservation Centre, who leads the efforts to reintroduce Vietnamese pheasants to Vietnam´s forests.
On Friday Vietnamazing had the honour of hosting Joel Satore, the photographer behind National Geographic´s Photo Ark. His photos of the Vietnamazing flagship species will soon become part of the campaign´s efforts to further create public awareness and help protect Vietnamese species, habitats and ecosystems.
During the conference the incredible amount of over 111.252 € of donations and pledges has been collected. The Vietnamazing campaign team would like to thank everyone who is already part of it!
However, we are not finished. We will continue to work on linking conservation planning processes, in situ and ex situ conservation with habitat restoration efforts, scientific research, conservation education, fundraising and public awareness to highlight and help protect Vietnam´s biodiversity!