Việt Nam News

Ngọc Hiển District in the southernmost province of Cà Mau has already suffered from 20 riverbank erosion this rainy season though it has only just begun, and the resultant losses are estimated at over VNĐ1.3 billion (US$50,700) besides the adverse effect they have had on the lives of local people.

The planning project’s objectives are to proactively prevent and control environmental pollution and degradation; to restore and improve environmental quality; and to prevent decline and enhance biodiversity in order to ensure the people's right to live in a healthy environment.

The Ministry of Finance has asked the Government to extend farming land use tax exemption to attract more investment into the agricultural sector.

The National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting identified this year's rainy season as particularly complex and unpredictable.

With over 40 million tonnes of straw produced yearly across the country, efficient recycling and reuse can deliver significant benefits to farmers while contributing to Việt Nam's commitments made to the international community to reduce the country's emissions.

With the advent of waste-to-energy technology, the concepts of 'environment and economy' can progress in tandem with no longer any need to trade off or sacrifice one for the other.

Việt Nam is progressing its energy transition by decreasing its dependence on fossil fuel-based electricity and prioritising the development of clean, sustainable energy sources to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

Trần Văn Phước, of Long An Province is pruning branches, creating canopy for trees and applying organic fertilisers to stimulate root growth across his lemon orchard.

The city’s unique natural features with a dense network of rivers and lakes creates the distinctive geographical and beautiful, characteristics of the capital city.

With the motto 'Wherever we go, it's always clean', they have carried out campaigns to clean up and pick up trash in polluted rivers and canals with the aim to revitalise the city's waterways.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has officially recognised Cát Tiên National Park in southern Vietnam as the 72nd addition to its prestigious Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas. The park is the second Green List site in Việt Nam, along with Vân Long Wetland Nature Reserve in Ninh Bình Province, which was recognised in 2021.

Two conservation projects on the protection of two endangered primates species – red-shanked douc langurs and grey-shanked douc langurs – have been approved by the central city of Đà Nẵng and Quảng Ngãi province in central Việt Nam.

The hospital is now treating and caring for rare and precious wild animals such as pangolins, clouded monitors, binturongs, civets, stump-tailed macaques, rhesus macaques and ferret badgers.

On average, a Vietnamese person dies of a respiratory disease due to exposure to air pollution every 7.5 seconds.

Hawksbill and green sea turtles are on the verge of extinction, and listed in the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Việt Nam's Red Books.

The new facility will raise the city’s daily wastewater treatment capacity to 1.1 million cu.m per day, or about 71 per cent of the daily wastewater discharge.

The reserve aims to protect and preserve aquatic resources, marine species, rare and endangered species, species with economic and scientific value, the environment, ecosystem and natural landscape.

On the occasion of World Environment Day (June 5) and the action month for the environment, Sanofi-Aventis Vietnam Company Limited (Sanofi Vietnam) in partnership with Gaia Nature Conservation Centre (Gaia) launched a project called "Expanding Green Spaces for HCM City" for the 2024-26 period.