Việt Nam News

According to a report by Dân Việt newspaper, the elephants have caused damage to numerous trees in gardens and farming fields at Thạch Màng Hamlet, located in the Tân Lợi Commune of the Đồng Phú District.

At a forum on the International Day of the Forest yesterday in Hà Nội, Phạm Hồng Lượng, chief of office of the General Department of Forestry, stressed the importance of raising awareness about the role of forests in human life to work together in forest protection and sustainable forest exploitation.

This year, the theme of World Water Day is “Accelerating Change” which aims to raise awareness and provide education about the global water crisis.

The surveys, conducted from February 10-15, aimed to collect information on the population, distribution, and habitat of gray-shanked douc langurs.

Sea turtles have been included in the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

Currently, Việt Nam has more than 3.3 million hectares of forest and unallocated forest land which are temporarily managed by commune people's committees.

The UN 2023 Water Conference, which takes place from March 22-24 in New York, will focus on encouraging and supporting countries to achieve water-related goals and targets approved internationally for the 2018-28 period.

According to the city's sub-department of environment protection, the plastic waste recycling formula is part of a project funded by the Danish International Development Agency (Danida) and implemented through International Development Enterprises between 2021 and 2024.

This decision has been incorporated in the Law on Environmental Protection 2020 and other relevant documents.

The HCM City People’s Council has discussed feasible measures to address the issue of encroachment into drainage systems and litter in the Nhiêu Lộc-Thị Nghè Canal.

Three men involved in the illegal trading of pangolins, a critically endangered species, have been arrested.

Phạm Anh Tuấn, director of the Xuân Liên Natural Reserve Management Board, said that a project on the investigation and preservation of species of the civet family (Viverridae) in the natural reserve has been implemented since 2021.

The partnership is a step forward in promoting the use of recycled plastic in Unilever’s packaging production, thereby increasing recycling activities and creating a cycle for plastic waste in Việt Nam.

These species have been listed in the Việt Nam Red Book and need to be conserved.

The Law on Environmental Protection regulates the classification of solid waste into three categories of recyclable solid waste, food waste and other domestic solid waste but localities are still struggling to find the appropriate plan to do so.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bến Tre plans to increase its forest cover, especially by growing mangroves, to mitigate the impacts of climate change and combine them with aquaculture to increase people’s incomes.

Hà Nội needs an urgent and optimal solution for waste treatment, environmental experts have said, suggesting the construction of modern waste treatment facilities and waste sorting at source be the key points to improve the city’s waste treatment capacity.

Expanding the tax base and increasing environmental protection tax on non-biodegradable packaging materials would be considered with an aim to limit the use of these materials.