Việt Nam News

Protecting pangolins from the wildlife trade is a difficult task. From rescuing them from animal traffickers to keeping them healthy and alive, each part of the process requires great effort and care.

Authorities in the southern province of Cà Mau do not agree that Cà Mau City’s garbage treatment plant should extend its shutdown to conduct repairs, deputy chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Lâm Văn Bi said yesterday.

Stone pits located near the Buông River in the southern province of Đồng Nai could cause the river’s banks to collapse, a report from the province’s Department of Mineral Resources and Environment has said.

To protect the forest as well as to facilitate livelihoods for forest-dependent people, benefit sharing is the best solution which saves budget for forest protection while ensuring its sustainable development.

Thousands of fish, shrimp and crabs raised in ponds near the Trường Giang River, in the section running through Tam Hiệp Commune in the central province of Quảng Nam, have died over the past few days, causing concern for aquacultural households in Núi Thành District.

Scientists at the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources have announced the discovery of a new fish species endemic to a cave system in the central region’s Quảng Bình Province, which is home to the world’s biggest grotto, Sơn Đoòng.

HCM City will reduce the number of waste depots in inner districts while increasing the number in the city’s outlying areas.

A local craftsman from central Viet Nam is trying to replace single-use plastic straws with reusable bamboo alternatives at hotels, resorts and restaurants in Hội An, Đà Nẵng, Nha Trang and Phú Quốc.

Teachers and students at Cát Trinh Junior Secondary School had to endure bad smells from the Đồng Đế Channel over the past two months, said school principal Nguyễn Ngọc Trắc.

Families in the central province of Hà Tĩnh who were relocated 10 years ago to make way for a development project still have no access to fresh water.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc witnessed the signing of the Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade Voluntary Partnership Agreement (FLEGT-VPA) between Việt Nam and the European Union which aims to fight illegal logging, in Brussels yesterday on the sidelines of the 12th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit.

Valuable ancient trees in northern mountainous Hà Giang Province, some of which are hundreds of years old, are at risk of disappearing because of continued illegal logging that responsible agencies have been unable to curb.

Việt Nam is working to develop its own earth observation satellite, which will help the country manage natural resources and mitigate the impacts of climate change and natural disasters, a conference heard yesterday.

Cambodia, Laos and Việt Nam must work closer together to make the shift to using more renewable energy.

A large area of sea grass on the Chàm Islands, off the coast of Hội An, have been damaged due to the rapid increase in speed boats over the past several decades—another sign that mass tourism and unsustainable development threaten the rich ecosystem on the islands, said Director of the Chàm Island-Hội An Marine Protected Area (MPA) Centre Trần Thị Hồng Thúy.

A fresh controversy has broken out as local authorities in the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế plan to take almost 400 hectares from the core zone of local Bạch Mã National Park to develop a tourism complex.

Local authorities in the Mekong Delta are taking measures to mitigate the impact of flooding caused by high tides during the annual flood season in the delta.

Reports about three new species of the ginger family – Newmania cristata, Newmania gracilis and Newmania sontraensis (Zingiberaceae: Zingibereae) – found in central Việt Nam were officially published by Phytotaxa (a botany journal) in September, bringing the number of species in this endemic Vietnamese genus to six.