Việt Nam News

 The Chư Mom Ray National Park received a pig-tailed macaque (macaca leonina species), recognised as a rare species, which was handed over voluntarily by a local resident, director of the national park Võ Sỹ Chung confirmed with the online newspaper baokontum on Thursday.

Elephants in Đồng Nai are destroying crop fields and damaging farmers’ buildings – despite a 50-kilometre electric fence built to keep them out.

Đồng Nai People’s Committee has fined a Malaysian company subsidiary VNĐ9.7 billion (US$415,232) for illegal waste burial. 

Residents of Vũ Hội Commune in Vũ Thư District of northern Thái Bình Province have to pass a large rubbish dump to get to the communal clinic. The pile, high as a person’s head, is located just 100 metres from the clinic and the primary and secondary schools of the commune.

Farmers in Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces are struggling to fight floodwaters caused by heavy rains, rising tides and water released in the wake of a dam breach in Laos.

The number of gaurs living in Ja Book Valley has been declining over the last 20 years as the grasslands where they used to roam have slowly been replaced by forests.

The amount of silt and sediment flowing down the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta has been decreasing, while the erosion of riverbanks and coastlines around the area is becoming more serious.

Violations on environmental protection regulations and illegal import of scrap into Việt Nam must be investigated and strictly punished to avoid being repeated.

Proper management of water and fires at the Tràm Chim National Park in Đồng Tháp Province holds the key to preserving the Ramsar site’s eco-system, experts have said.

The HCM City People’s Committee has petitioned the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to restrict the granting of new licences to exploit groundwater.

The Greater Mekong region, once the world’s most densely forested area, has lost a third of its natural forest cover and will lose another third by 2030 unless action is taken immediately, according to a new World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) report said.

 The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MoNRE) is struggling to handle nearly 6,000 of scrap containers held up at major sea ports around the country, which not only pose environmental concerns but also hinder the port’s activities.

Nguyễn Thanh Tú, 56, a retired border soldier, has spent eight years searching for and protecting Hatinh langurs living in mountainous areas in Đồng Hoá Commune in the coastal central province of Quảng Bình.

Illegal wildlife traffickers face heavy punishment in Viet Nam, according to officials. Illegal endangered species hunters and traders face two to seven years in prison, or fines from VNĐ50 million (US$2,200) to VNĐ3 billion ($133,000).

People living alongside Nhuệ and Đáy rivers in Hà Nội and Hà Nam Province have been suffering severe water pollution for years. But the situation has not yet been solved. Kinh Tế & Đô Thị (Economy & Urban Affairs) talked with Hoàng Văn Thức, vice director of Việt Nam Environment Administration (Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment) about the issues.

Scientists have announced the discovery of two new species of tea plant in the Vũ Quang National Park in the central province of Hà Tĩnh.

HCM City’s People’s Committee has asked the Prime Minister and relevant agencies to approve an extension of the second phase of its environmental sanitation project (Nhiêu Lộc-Thị Nghè Basin) to 2030 as a foreign contractor has yet to be selected.

HCM City is facing ongoing issues from agro-product waste at its wholesale markets and has yet to come up with a solution, reported Nông thôn Ngày nay (Countryside Today) newspaper.