Environment

Thousands of people in the Mekong Delta Region have been given free freshwater to dealwith the on-going drought and saline intrusion.

Three monkeys, which were handed over from two households in the northern province of Ha Tinh, have been released.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved an aid package worth VND 530 billion (US$22.7 million) for drought, saltwater intrusion prevention in eight Mekong Delta provinces.

An aid package of VND530 billion (over USD22.7 million) has been approved by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc to help eight provinces in the Mekong Delta deal with drought, water scarcity and saltwater intrusion.

A herd of eight elephants have been seen in the central province of Quang Nam.

Over 9.4 thousand hectares of forest land in the central highlands province of Gia Lai had been encroached between three years from 2016 to November 2019 according to local inspectors.

The Department of Environment has announced six locations facing serious pollution in the north.

According to new research for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), over 90% of respondents surveyed in Vietnam support government-led closure of illegal and unregulated wildlife markets.

Four facilities which specialise in pulp and votive paper production have been suspended for polluting the Ma River, causing mass fish deaths on the river.

Saline intrusion in the Mekong Delta will likely remain at a high level until the end of April or early May, before gradually declining, according to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

Howard Limbert, an expert of the British Royal Caving Research Association, announced that 12 new caves have been found in Quang Binh during their exploration in early 2020.

Around a total of 6.5 tonnes of fish and shrimps have been found dead on Ma River in the central province of Thanh Hoa.

Eleven minor earthquakes have occurred in Vietnam since the beginning of this year, according to the Standing Office of the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment will allocate VND4bn (USD170,000) to five provinces in the Mekong Delta in order to fight drought and saline intrusion.

The northern region will have three to five more cold spells that cause rainstorms in April.

Vietnamese and German scientists have discovered a new species of Megophrys toad in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang, according to the Nhan Dan newspaper.

The air quality in Vietnam will improve from the end of March into the following months compared to that in the first months of 2020, the Vietnam Environment Administration (VEA) under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has said.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has called for people to switch off lights and unnecessary electric devices on March 28 as a way to participate in the international Earth Hour Campaign.

Hundreds of hectares of rice fields in Binh Thuan Commune, Binh Dinh Province are being abandoned due to serious drought.