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.

The central district Điện Bàn in co-operation with the Korea International Co-operation Agency (KOICA) will start conservation of bamboo project at local in 2017-25.

Police in central Hà Tĩnh Province’s Kỳ Thọ Commune discovered 12 dead langurs wrapped in newspapers on a passenger bus that was pulled over for a regular check in Kỳ Anh District.

Hà Nội Urban Environment One Member Co yesterday received 12 German-made street sweepers worth more than VND20 billion (US$878,000) to help clean up the streets for the New Year.

Limitations in treating large amounts of waste generated by thermal power plants are threatening their operations, experts say.

An interdisciplinary team of northern Quảng Ninh Province’s Hạ Long City and the city’s Aquaculture department has inspected the aquaculture exploitation activities on the bay and found six vessels illegally using electric  shockers to catch fish.

Pak Việt Nam Company from the southern province of Đồng Nai has been caught red-handed discharging black substance – suspected to be wastewater – into Thị Vải river.

Natural disasters and environmental pollution can reduce GDP by 0.6 per cent per year from 2016-20, according to the National Centre for Socio-economic Information and Forecast (NCIF) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Since early human settlement, wild elephants have been an integral part of Việt Nam’s identity. The cultural icon has inspired poetry, music and art.

Three earthquakes struck the mountainous A Lưới District in Thừa Thiên-Huế Province on Wednesday. No damage to life and property was reported, the local disaster management cell said.