Only appear after some early rains of the rainy season and when darkness has covered the whole forest. This type of cicada lives mostly under the ground and when they have moulted, sung, mated and laid eggs, it means they have completed the job that nature has given. This species has the ability of fast bounding, so it is hard to catch and hard to photograph when they open their colourful sparkling wings and fly and Very slow and easy to catch

The black-shanked douc langur finds food in the morning and afternoon and rests at noon and in the evening. When looking for food – which includes fruit, seeds, leaves, corn, potato, cassava and vegetables – it moves more slowly than the gibbon and is not as quiet in its movements as other species. The black-shanked douc langur, rated E, for endangered, in the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species, has hair on its face and a chestnut-coloured

Accompanied with me on that trip, there was a reporter from the national Vietnam Television (VTV) and a TRAFFIC staff who was interpreter for the delegation. After nine-hour flight with two transits from Hanoi, we landed on the Tambo International Airport (Johannesburg, the Republic of South Africa) at 06.30 local time. Being the most populated city in South Africa with the total population of 11 million, however, Johannesburg is also recognized as one

Excited with the thinking of facing with black rhino, I even made some confusion when preparing my belongings for the trip. After almost an hour of travelling by car, we arrived to the extraction site. Everyone was here and ready for the  capturing, from veterinarian, conservation workers, researchers to helicopters and specialized vehicle to carry rhino. Reporters from VTV1, Green Renaissance Film Crew, Africa TV… were also ready with necessary equipments to record

On the way to the other game reserve, we stopped by a ranger station of iMfolozi game reserve located in a middle of a huge desert. Head of the station, Ian Pollard took us for a tour around the station and warehouse stocking poachers’ equipment that has been seized during the last 10 years. Each time he showed us the bullet holes on the skull of killed rhinos, his eyes indicated the sadness and sympathy for the poor faiths of these prehistoric and peaceful animals

Through data that transmitted live from the camera on the helicopter to the mobile devices of conservation workers, we learnt that two rhino individuals were killed for horns by poachers several days ago, two others were still alive since they were discovered on time and only one of their horn were sawn off. It was so terrible to see the images from camera showing the blood was still bleeding on the faces of those poor animals. Our car ran with incredible high speed toward

During my trip to South Africa, a shameful obsession over me when being asked a repeated question by most of the South African colleagues: “What should we do to prevent Vietnamese people from trading and consuming rhino horn?” I am not in the authorized position to adequately answer this question raised by my beloved South African friends. From perspective of a biodiversity researcher, I do want to share my knowledge on rhino horn so no one will be misled into

I called a brother-in-arms of mine, who was at the time, head of a forest guard post of the national park, to tell him about our intention. Though not planning to join us, he kindly assigned two of his rangers to accompany our research group. The rain didn’t stop. We decided to hike, following Tuan. In many places, the water was already knee-deep. When we came to where Tuan found the snake, the rain stopped. We started scouring an area of about a kilometre in diameter