Việt Nam News

Gas emissions from motorbikes will be periodically checked under the revised Law on Road Traffic which will be submitted to the National Assembly this year to protect the environment.

Less tourism activity and waste around the Chàm Islands – a world biodiversity reserve site – would help the marine ecosystem in waters off the islands recover after the two-month social distancing order due to COVID-19.

The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) announces that Lê Thị Trang and nine other conservationists from around the world have been named ‘Hotspot Heroes’ for their efforts to protect the world’s biodiversity hotspots.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked authorities in the central region to take action to deal with the prolonged heat wave, drought and saltwater intrusion in the region.

Two families of 10 gray-shanked douc langurs (pygathrix cinerea) – a critically endangered (CR) species – have been newly found in the 30ha secondary forest in Tam Mỹ Tây commune of the central province’s Núi Thành district.

The Centre for Rescue, Conservation and Development of Wild Animals at the Bù Gia Mập National Park in the southeastern province of Bình Phước rehabilitates animals before releasing them back to the wild.

Two families of 10 gray-shanked douc langurs (pygathrix cinerea) – a critically endangered (CR) species – have been newly found in the 30ha secondary forest in Tam Mỹ Tây commune of the central province’s Núi Thành district.

The drought-hit Mekong Delta province of Long An this year needs more fresh water, but can only supply about 50 per cent of demand from its 35 fresh water treatment plants and stations. 

Temperatures will hit 34-37 degrees Celsius and even more than 38 degrees Celsius in some places.

Saline intrusion on some rivers in Mekong Delta has exceeded the historic 2015-2016 dry season which caused damage of VNĐ15 trillion ($646 million).

A sewer system under the Tô Lịch River is being built using unprecedented technology designed by a Japanese company in a bid to clean up the notoriously polluted river.

Members of the SaSa Marine animal rescue team have been restoring a 1.2sq.km complex of coral reefs on the coastal south area of the Sơn Trà Peninsula in the central city, reviving the already damaged coral reefs for prolonged existence of ocean species in the area.

At least eight Rhesus monkeys (Macara Mulatta), an endangered species, were found living at the Linh Ứng Pagoda with serious injuries or missing limbs. 

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has urged all sectors and localities to review and formulate response plans for natural disasters and incidents.

The management board of Lý Sơn Marine Protected Area (MPA) has proposed a gene protection programme for five endangered sea creatures – mummy fish, or sea cucumber (holothurian nobilis), abalone (haliotis sorenseni), tropical rock lobster (panulirus ornatus), maxima clam (tridacna maxima) and red seaweed (laurencia intermedia) – that have been over-fished in water off the islands.

The People’s Committee in the southernmost province of Cà Mau has sentenced a company director to 13 years in prison and a fine fo VNĐ100 million (US$4,283) for organising trafficking of rare and endangered wildlife.

Memories of idyllic beaches and sonorous waves may seem far away while we remain at home. Yet, we need not look far to appreciate the enduring history of the ocean in Asia and the Pacific. For generations, the region has thrived on our seas. Our namesake bears a nod to the Pacific Ocean, a body of water tethered to the well-being of billions in our region. The seas provide food, livelihoods and a sense of identity, especially for coastal communities in the Pacific island States.

Trees in mangrove forests in Sóc Trăng Province’s Vĩnh Châu Town have died or are dying because of water shortage, according to the town’s Forest Protection Bureau.