Environment

The Action Month for Environment was launched in Hanoi on Friday to mark World Environment Day (June 5).

The Education for Nature – Vietnam (ENV) has appealed for an end to commercial farming of endangered wildlife, in an attempt to conserve biodiversity on the occasion of the World Environment Day 2020 (June 5).

Vietnam Environment Administration reported that the air quality in Hanoi in May improved greatly thanks to the rainy season.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has made plans to deal with the coming locust plague including using military and weather radars to detect the locus.

Hanoi’s People's Committee has officially declared an emergency over erosion in some communes of Chương Mỹ District.

Police in Dak Lak Province are investigating the forest destruction problem in the area.

A Lý Sơn Island resident in the central province of Quảng Ngãi has ignored cynicism and negative comments to continue on his mission to preserve his homeland’s maritime resource.

Protecting the environment in conflicts is a crucial need and a shared responsibility of the international community, Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of the Vietnamese Mission to the United Nations, has affirmed.

Vietnam will mark four years of natural forest closure this July, a measure to reverse severe deforestation.

Hanoi authorities have issued warnings over serious erosion in four outlying districts.

Singapore's otters, long adored by the city-state's nature lovers, are popping up in unexpected places during the coronavirus lockdown but their antics have angered some and even sparked calls for a cull.

Hundreds of reservoirs in the central highlands province of Dak Lak are in urgent need of repair before the flooding season.

As many as 104 areas in the Mekong Delta region are facing serious erosion while the authorities lack solutions.

Mud and sand split from an on-going real estate project in the southern central province of Binh Thuan has affected many local households.

Over 500 households in Lien Phuong Commune, Hanoi, have reported a dumping site to the local authorities multiple times after living over a year with pollution.

Joint efforts are being made to crack down on the illegal trade of wild animals on the Internet in Vietnam as more traders have shifted offline to Internet-based markets.

UNICEF Vietnam is willing to provide technical support and cooperate with the Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau to tackle issues triggered by natural disasters and epidemics, UNICEF Representative in Vietnam Rana Flowers told provincial leaders.

Many canals in HCM City are struggling with the serious pollution due to illegal waste dumping.

Farmers in Hong Ngu District, Dong Thap Province, are struggling as the rice fields keep dying from saline contamination.