The harvest of wildlife, especially is elephant through hunting, trapping and snaring is illegal in Vietnam but remains widespread and is understood to be the major threat to many species. Clandestine activities such as trapping and snaring, which are deeply embedded in the culture and economy, are difficult to investigate and this study is the first to carry out in-depth research into the illegal capture and sale of wildlife by a major ethnic group in Vietnam.

The species that are killed mostly and illegally in Vietnam is elephant because many people of the rich believe that the ivory of elephant can trat serious illness such as cancer,etc. As a result, they dare to spent a enormous amount of money to hire hunters to hunt elephant.

The Highlands in Vietnam used to be famous for elephant, there are 1500 to 2000 species of elephants were found there. However, at the moment, according to the National Geographic, there is only about 70 species. As we can infer from the data, elephants in Vietnam are being hunted dramatically instead of the laws to protecet them.

Not only because of the rich, some families on Highlands feed elephants for their economic means such as circus or transporting people. Therefore, elephants usually die because of their lack of nutritions and overwork.

The lack of wild life animal- elephants has an extrmely negative impact to Vietanam.