Reuse Everything Institute Inc of Finland has agreed to fund a biodiversity research project in the Sơn Trà Nature Reserve that will contribute to protecting the endangered red-shanked douc langur (Pygathryx nemaeus).

Officials are deeply concerned about the “serious degradation” of water quality in the Đồng Nai River basin.

A meeting was held in Hà Nội yesterday to report on the implementation of the Việt Nam National Green Growth Strategy in the 2012-16 period. 

Twelve walls in Nguyễn Thái Bình ward of District 1, HCM City, are being covered with rhino-themed graffiti to call for an end to the use of rhino horn in Việt Nam.

Only around 100 wild elephants, and an additional 60 in captivity, remain in Việt Nam, with most living in Đắk Lắk, Đồng Nai and Nghệ An provinces, a conference on elephant conservation heard on Wednesday.

A total of 47 frozen bodies of monkeys and mustelids were found at the home of a resident in central Hà Tĩnh Province yesterday.

Projects which fail to meet waste treatment requirements would be rejected, and completed projects would only be put into operation when their treatment of waste water treatment met environmental standards, Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has stressed.

Sea water and waste water samples related to mass clam deaths in central Thanh Hóa Province have failed to meet environment criteria, said Lê Văn Bình, head of the Environmental Protection Branch under the provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment, on Sunday.

Police in the southern province of Đồng Nai’s Biên Hòa City have stopped three trucks carrying some five tonnes of foul-smelling animal organs towards the Cái River.