WWF-Việt Nam, GreenViet work to protect endangered primates

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)-Việt Nam and the Centre of Biodiversity Conservation, GreenViet, will work together on a project to protect the gray-shanked douc langurs in the central province’s Núi Thành district in 2020.

Forest restoration set to conserve grey-shanked doucs in Quảng Nam The central province is seeking sustainable solutions for the conservation of critically endangered primates living in a primary forest, while creating stable livelihoods for log farmers in Tam Mỹ Tây commune – which is home to 50 endangered grey-shanked douc langurs.

Central province to restore forest for endangered langurs

The central province plans to allocate a fund of VNĐ100 billion (US$4.4 million) to restore a 100ha forest as a safe habitat for a herd of gray-shanked douc langurs (pygathrix cinerea) living in Đồng Cổ Village, Tam Mỹ Tây Commune of Núi Thành district in 2019-28.

Gardeners see profits in ‘green’ produce

A group of 16 farmers in Tiên Hà Commune in the mountainous Tiên Phước district of Quảng Nam Province have joined together in a ‘green herb’ co-operative – a model that helps promote production chains of farm produce and herbs and develop eco-tourism.

Sustainable forestry to boost growth among ethnic groups

Việt Nam Government is 100 per cent behind supporting ethnic minority groups, Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình told the Ethnic Minority Development Forum in central Quảng Nam Province on Monday.

Central province begins solar power project at log farm

The central province of Phú Yên began a solar-powered watering system for log farms in Tuy An district after one-year pilot project using sun-powered pumping systems for sugarcane farms in Sơn Hòa district.

Central province to launch urgent protection of endangered langurs

The central province, in co-operation with the Centre of Biodiversity Conservation, GreenViet, began an urgent conservation project for two herds of gray-shanked douc langurs (pygathrix cinerea) in a forest of Núi Thành District’s Tam Mỹ Tây Commune.

Cơ Tu community revives centuries-old culture

The Cơ Tu ethnic community has been struggling to preserve its culture and traditional customs that have mostly faded away with rapid urbanisation.

Houses in reserve to be razed

Authorities plan to demolish 68 illegal houses, villas and restaurants in the Sơn Trà Nature Reserve if households do not dismantle themselves before deadline of September.

Tracking the sao la in Trường Sơn Mountains

The sao la, Vũ Quang ox, spindlehorn, or Asian bicorn (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis) is one of the world's rarest large mammals, a forest-dwelling bovine found only in the Trường Sơn Mountain Range of Việt Nam and Laos.