Commercial Civet Farming
Throughout Asia, civets are increasingly captured, transported, and housed in commercial facilities for the production of civet coffee and luxury meat. In Vietnam, civet farming is going to be a major issue for the next two decades as traditional crop, poultry, and pig farming is becoming more costly and labour intensive than farming wild species. Yet civet farming in Vietnam is largely unregulated, at the detriment to civet welfare, conservation, and public health. Civet farming is not sustainable and poor captive management practices are causing biohazards for workers, local communities, and the wider ecosystem.
Through interdisciplinary research, collaborative community engagement, strategic public outreach, and effective policy change, the Civet One Health project aims to end commercial civet farming in Vietnam whilst promoting more equitable and sustainable futures for generations to come.
One Health One Welfare
The One Health approach recognises that humans, non-human animals and ecosystems are each interconnected. To harm the health of one, impacts the health of others.
One Health One Welfare is built on three C's: effective communication, collaboration, coordination, and capacity building between people of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally, to attain optimal health and welfare for people, animals and our environment.
Following these principles, we seek to safeguard the health of humans, civets, and the environment by decreasing the demand for civets and their farmed products.
Species Pledges
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The Civet Project Foundation has pledged to reverse the declining populations of Owston's civet (Chrotogale owstoni) and Binturong (Arctictis binturong). Through our collaborative work with our network of civet champions, we are raising awareness and inspiring human behavioural-change, assessing species population health, and supporting species recovery through captive breeding and reintroduction programs, and habitat protection.
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Collaborative Research
Data and knowledge sharing are crucial for reversing species decline of Viverrid species, which have expansive ranges across Asia and Africa. We work collaboratively with leading organisations comprising conservationists, ethologists, veterinarians, and small carnivore experts to organise data collection, sharing, and dissemination so that we can most accurately and efficiently assess, plan and implement conservation priority actions.
Our training and workshop opportunities furthers our knowledge and skills sharing and provides a forum for collective conservation action.
Our Approach
We believe that conservation action is most effective when approached in a holistic way. Species threats are complex and involve risks to species numbers, animal welfare, and human health. The impacts of, and solutions to these threats involve everyone - we therefore implement a One Health, One Welfare, One Plan approach to our commitment to the Reverse the Red Initiative.
What does this mean in practice?
It means we apply a wide scope to our conservation action. We monitor species threats and the impact of these threats have on conservation, animal welfare, and human health. We raise awareness of species protection issues and work with local communities, businesses and large corporations to inspire pro-conservation behaviour. We bridge the divide between in-situ and ex-situ conservation initiatives to ensure data, knowledge, and skills sharing. By doing so, we protect animals, humans and the planet.
Reversing the Red is a collaborative effort. We work with a number of organisations to ensure we work most effectively for species conservation.
Conservation Partners
We share the Reverse the Red values to always be optimistic, evidence-based, and collaborative.
We are thankful to all the organisations who work with us to Reverse the Red for Viverrids.
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