Organisations around the world are gearing up for the third ever annual day of global civet celebration! The 4th April 2026 is the third ever World Civet Day, a global day of civet celebration organised by charity ‘The Civet Project Foundation’. But who are civets, and why are they making such a noise in the conservation space of late?

With support from the Matthew Good Foundation, we’ll be developing the first of its kind Civet Forest School as part of our wider Civet One Health program.

In this edition of our 'Meet the Researcher' blog series, we welcome Green Criminology PhD student Aitor Ibáñez Alonso to The Civet Project to share his latest field working findings from Vietnam.