The People’s Court of northern Hung Yen province on June 2 sentenced a man to five years and three months in jail for storing 780 kg of pangolin scales - a type of banned goods - in accordance with Clause 3, Article 191 of the 2015 Penal Code (revised and supplemented in 2017).

VOV.VN - Police forces in Hanoi claimed on May 19 to have broken up the largest pangolin scale smuggling ring ever detected in Vietnam.

An individual of red-shanked douc was released into Bach Ma National Park in Phu Loc district, the central province of Thua Thien – Hue on May 5.

VOV.VN - Police operating in Binh Tan district of Ho Chi Minh City have arrested an individual who is suspected of illegally transporting a pangolin, an animal which is on the list of endangered rare species and therefore banned from being traded, according to Education for Nature-Vietnam (ENV).