Việt Nam News

Rapid development of resorts, hotels and entertainment projects in the Lý Sơn Island off the central coastal province of Quảng Ngãi threaten to seriously damage the ancient geography of the area related to volcanic eruptions 25 to 30 million years ago.

Slag dumps of Vĩnh Tân 2 thermoelectric plant pose a high risk of causing environmental damage, local authorities said.

Sixteen international and non-governmental organisations working for wildlife conservation in Việt Nam signed a joint letter urging strict punishment for Nguyễn Mậu Chiến and his accomplies for transnational wildlife trafficking.

The HCM City Department of Natural Resources and Environment plans to improve waste and water management as well as land-use management this year.

The lives and crops of residents living near the Bồ River bank in central Thừa Thiên- Huế Province are being threatened by riverbank landslides.

Đặng Văn Thành, Chairman of the Management Board of the Thành Thành Công Group, talks to the newspaper Nông Thôn Ngày Nay (Countryside Today) about the country’s great potential to develop biomass energy.

The Mekong Delta An Giang Province is being helped to produce a detailed and workable draft plan to implement the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. All other Vietnamese provinces also have to complete their plans.

Recent rapid construction of more than 20 hotels and resorts in Sơn Trà Nature Reserve.is threatening the survival of highly endangered langurs and other wildlife. Human activities, such as illegal logging and hunting, also continue to badly affect the lives of the primates and wildlife in the reserve.

Province and city authorities have been told to stop investment in fired clay brick production and to prioritise investment in other environmentally friendly construction materials.

A project in Hưng Yên Province to clean-up a village polluted by lead from recycled batteries and reduce the dangerous levels of lead in residents' blood has been shown to be sustainable.

For centuries, residents in Phúc Sơn Commune, central province of Nghệ An have lived comfortably with wild elephants, but as bamboo forests - the main diet of many elephants - are replaced with industrial trees, things are changing. Many elephant herds are now finding it difficult to find enough food to survive

Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng said yesterday that incidents such as the mass poisoning of fish off the coast of Việt Nam last year should never happen again. “It was a painful lesson,” he said.

The Quảng Đông Commune People’s Committee has successfully removed more than 100cu.m of soil and water contaminated with sodium hydroxide from the 19/5 Village.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) plans to launch a communication campaign to promote the non-use of plastic bags as a prelude to its sea turtle conservation programme on Lý Sơn Island in 2018.

The Elephant Conservation Centre in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk is carrying out implant of microchips in captive elephants.

A company in Mỹ Hào District, northern Hưng Yên Province, has been fined more than VNĐ600 million (US$26,000) for violating environment and water resource-related regulations by releasing waste into the environment.

As Typhoon Tembin approaches the mainland, “inexperienced” localities in the south, which rarely face heavy storms, are actively preparing for worst case scenarios.

A beautifully coloured frog found in the limestone mountains of Việt Nam, two mole species found by a team of Vietnamese and Russian scientists, and the Vietnamese crocodile lizard are among 115 new species discovered by scientists in the Greater Mekong region in 2016, according to a new report released yesterday by the World Wide Fund for Nature.