<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dear Sir/Madam,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">In celebration of Vietnam Bear Day (May 7, 2015), ENV organized a press conference to mark </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">ten years of progress in working to end bear farming and trade in Vietnam. It is one year since the successful closure of bear bile tourism operations in Ha Long Bay, and a new ENV study indicates 61% reduction in bear bile consumption across Vietnam over the past five years.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">ENV Bear Ambassador and celebrity pop star My Linh joined Vietnam Bear Day to emphasize the plight of Vietnam’s bears in captivity and called upon the public to join her to put an end to bear farming in Vietnam once and for all. The event was attended by Government agencies and both local and international NGOs, along with more than 70 journalists and reporters from newspapers and TV channels.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">In conjunction with Vietnam Bear Day, volunteers from ENV’s 5,000-strong national wildlife protection network also hosted “End Bear Farming and Trade” events in 15 major cities to raise awareness and encourage people to join the fight on behalf of Vietnam’s captive bears.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The short film highlighting ten years of ENV commitment and progress in ending bear farming and trade in Vietnam can be watched online at <a href="https://youtu.be/jlFq1NkSLEE" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/jlFq1NkSLEE</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">For more information, please see the attached press release.</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Best regards,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Communication and Public Awareness Department<br>Education for Nature - Vietnam (ENV)<br><strong>Address: Block 17T5, 17th floor, Room 1701, Hoang Dao Thuy Street, Cau Giay District, Hanoi</strong></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">, Vietnam<b><br><strong>Tel: +844 6281 5424</strong> </b><br>E-mail: </span><a href="mailto:communication.env@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">communication.env@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> <br>Website: </span><a href="http://www.envietnam.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">www.envietnam.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> (English), </span><a href="http://www.thiennhien.org/" target="_blank"><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