Snaring a non-selective method of poaching using wire traps is widespread in tropical forests in Southeast Asia. Snaring decimates wildlife populations and has pushed many larger mammals to local or even global extinction. Eleven years of data from ranger patrols in the Thua Thien Hue and Quang Nam Saola Nature Reserves in Viet Nam show that intensive removal efforts are labour-intensive and costly but brought snaring down by almost 40 percent and therefore reduced imminent threats to wildlife. Further reductions were difficult to achieve despite continued removal efforts. Snare removal is therefore necessary but by itself not sufficient to save the threatened wildlife diversity in tropical forests, scientists conclude.
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Researchers have found that natural forests are home to most earthworm species but agroforests are second. A diversity of earthworms means a healthy soil.
A team of researchers from World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Viet Nam National University of Forestry, Viet Nam Academy of Science and Technology, Can Tho University and Viet Nam–Japan University have found that the conversion of natural forests to different land uses has had a negative impact on earthworm diversity.
The study was supported by the United States Agency for International Development as part of an assessment of livelihoods and ecological conditions of buffer-zone communes in Song Thanh Nature Reserve, Quang Nam Province, and in Phong Dien Nature Reserve, Thua Thien Hue Province. The study itself took place in two communes in Quang Nam. Both communes are within the buffer zones of the Song Thanh Nature Reserve and on parts of a watershed that supplies water for several cities in Central Viet Nam. The remaining natu