Environment

The central province of Ha Tinh has submitted an urgent plan to protect the elephant for the 2019-2025 period to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

More than 750 runners from 31 countries and territories joined a running event in Hanoi on December 9 as part of efforts to raise public awareness of protecting tigers from the risk of extinction.

The Ho Chi Minh City government will commence a project to build six underground water reservoirs and one ground reservoir in January 2019 as part of its flood control efforts.

Vietnam is among the 10 countries and territories most affected by extreme weather events in the past two decades, according to the Global Climate Risk Index 2019 of Germanwatch, which was released at the annual climate summit in Poland recently.

Malaysia on Thursday torched nearly three tonnes of seized scales of endangered pangolins worth $9 million in a bid to deter illegal wildlife trafficking from Africa.

The southernmost province of Ca Mau is facing coastal erosion which has worsened over recent years.

Vietnam ranks 6th globally in the most up-to-date Climate Risk Index ranking released by Germanwatch, the highest of any ASEAN country.

A hospital in the central city of Danang has rescued a sea turtle that had digestive problems after eating different kinds of waste.

The authorities in Dak Lak Province have co-operated with the World Wildlife Fund to start a project to protect wild animals in the area from poachers.

The coastal area of Son Tra Peninsular in the central city of Danang’s ecosystem has faced a serious degradation over the past decade due to human activity.

The authorities in HCM City have suggested buying rubbish from local people to encourage rubbish sorting.

The World Bank on Monday unveiled $200 billion in climate action investment for 2021-25, adding this amounts to a doubling of its current five-year funding.

With the direst warnings yet of impending environmental disaster still ringing in their ears, representatives from nearly 200 nations gather Sunday in Poland to firm up their plan to prevent catastrophic climate change.

A new wastewater treatment plant in the southern province of Binh Duong with a daily capacity of 20,000cu.m was officially put into operation on November 30 after 18 months of construction.

A new study provides the first detailed information about the Annamite striped rabbit (Nesolagus timminsi) – a little-known lagomorph not discovered until 1995.

The police in Nghe An Province have stopped a car and seized a variety of wild animals including six monkeys which were being illegally transferred to Vinh City.

About 200 representatives have attended a conference to improve air quality in Hanoi on November 27.

Another gaur bison has been found dead at the Dong Nai Culture and Nature Reserve in the southern province of Dong Nai.

The Asian Development Bank has approved over USD100 million in financing to help Vietnam install eight modernised irrigation systems in five drought-affected provinces, which will improve agricultural productivity, especially among farmers growing high-value crops such as coffee, peppers, grapes,