Việt Nam News

The Chàm Island’s Marine Protected Area (MPA) management board has released a hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys Imbricata) – an endangered sea turtle species – back into the ocean after it was trapped in a drifting ‘ghost net' of garbage (a fishing net inadvertently lost overboard by fishermen) in the water off the islands.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta region needs “consistent strategies” to deal with groundwater extraction, land subsidence and saltwater intrusion in an increasingly urbanising area, experts said at a conference in HCM City on November 26.

The thirty individuals released are among the 100 civets that were handed over to the park from Bắc Giang forest rangers and police in April. The animals were seized from an illegal wildlife trafficking case.

An endangered pangolin (Manis Javanica), rescued by local residents living on Cham Islands, has been returned to the wild.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Tiền Giang is taking measures to curb erosion along rivers and canals, the threat of which is increasing in many places.

A series of modified boats, once used as popular ‘floating’ restaurants and cafes on Hồ Tây (West Lake) in Hà Nội, are being disposed of after years of laying exposed to the elements following a ban by city authorities.

The Cúc Phương National Park in northern Ninh Bình Province recently received two rare grey langurs from Forest Protection Department of central Thánh Hóa Province, its official said on Wednesday.

Huế City, a tourism hub in central Việt Nam, aims to cut its plastic waste by 30 per cent before 2024 and will be a ‘zero plastic waste’ destination by 2030.

Việt Nam needs to encourage and improve capacity and responsibility for the environment and nature and implement preventive actions in management agencies and businesses to minimise nature degradation, an expert has said.

A report titled “Climate change in Viet Nam, Impacts and Adaptation” has been introduced within the framework of COP26 in Glasgow, UK.

A Delacour’s langur baby has been born after its parents were released into the wild last year on Ngọc Island in Tràng An Landscape Complex, the northern province of Ninh Bình.

This includes $4 billion in investments to accelerate innovation for climate-smart agriculture and food systems over the next five years.

Two to three families of endangered black-shanked doucs, each having about two or three individuals, have been spotted in Bà Đen Mountain national tourist complex in the southwestern province of Tây Ninh since May.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính has called on countries to make strong commitments to reduce greenhouse emissions on the basis of common responsibility that suit their conditions and capacity, adding that there should be fairness and justice in climate change issues.

Landslides, triggered by torrential rain, were reported on Sunday night and early Monday morning, injuring one woman and causing a house to collapse in the northern mountainous province of Điện Biên.

The 'One Million Trees Plantation' project, delayed by COVID-19, has resumed in the Phước Trường communal house park. It is the fourth park in Đà Nẵng that has had trees planted in, to provide a ‘green’ shadow for the community and to reduce air pollution.

Vietnamese Ambassador to the UK, Nguyễn Hoàng Long, talks with Vietnam News Agency about Việt Nam's role in dealing with climate change, as Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính prepares for the UN-Climate Change Conference COP26 in the UK.

On the 50th anniversary of Vietnamese and Norwegian diplomatic relations, a 70-page Norwegian report on offshore wind production in Việt Nam was presented to officials on Thursday afternoon. It provides an overview of the entire supply chain for Việt Nam’s offshore wind industry.