Authorities in the central Quảng Trị Province are seeking ways to create new livelihood for locals living in the coastal communes where affected by Formosa pollution since April this year.

Hundreds of hectares of rice have been destroyed by mice, with as much as 90 per cent damaged in some fields, in Kiên Giang Province’s Giang Thành District.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has ordered the People’s Committee of Central Highlands province of Kon Tum to continue investigation into deforestation and illegal timber transportation in the province.

Five hundred households in Đông Ao and Mỹ Tho communes in the northern province of Hà Nam’s Thanh Thủy District claimed that they have been suffering serious environmental pollution for many years.

The Centre of Biodiversity Conservation (GreenViet), in co-operation with US-based San Diego Zoo Global and the management board of Bà Nà-Núi Chúa Nature Reserve, has begun a wildlife supervision programme by setting up 20 camera traps across the 28,000ha reserve.

A copper mining company in the northern Hòa Bình Province faces a fine of VNĐ320 million (US$14,200) for polluting a stream, leading to mass fish deaths in its neighbourhood in early July.

Some three tonnes of dead fish have been collected from lakes and dams in this central province’s Tân Kỳ District over the last few days, according to a local official.

Police and local authorities in the Central Highlands province of Lâm Đồng are hunting for the leader of a large illegal logging ring in Bảo Lâm District.

Local residents in Hớn Quản District’s Tân Hiệp Commune in Bình Phước province reported a mass fish death stretching several kilometres upstream of Sài Gòn River last weekend.