Environment

Many areas of the West Lake are being covered with rubbish left after floating restaurants were removed.

The National Centre for Hydrometeorological Forecasting (NCHMF) has launched a Finnish-funded project to improve the accuracy of rainfall measurements and lightning storm forecasts at Pha Din radar station in the northern province of Dien Bien’s Tuan Giao district.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade held a ceremony to launch the 2017 Earth Hour campaign in Vietnam with the message ‘Lights off to turn on the future’.

HCM City will focus on reducing pollution in rural districts and communes, local authorities said at a conference held in the city on March 3 to review the National Target Programme for New Rural Areas 2016.

Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga, head of the Permanent Vietnam Mission to the United Nations proposed five proposals to eradicate wildlife trade during an event on the sidelines of a ceremony marking UN World Wildlife Day (March 3).

Environmentalists have urged authorities to ‘learn lessons from the Formosa incident and reconsider proposed coal thermal power projects in Vinh Tan’.

The protective forest in the central province of Quang Tri is being largely destroyed as local forest rangers are unable to deal with the dangerous and reckless loggers.

Members of the conservation community in Vietnam are encouraging local young people to be part of the solution and speak up for the protection of endangered wildlife species in recognition of World Wildlife Day.

The People’s Committee of Hanoi will launch the Earth Hour 2017 Campaign in the capital city to raise public awareness of climate change adaptation and energy saving.

Hanoi authorities have banned and removed all fish farms in the West Lake after thousands of fish died last year.

The red streak that appeared in the waters around the Vung Ang economic zone in the central province of Ha Tinh – the same area still reeling from the consequences of the Formosa toxic spill – was confirmed to

Hundreds of local backpackers have joined in a campaign to collect rubbish from Ba Den Mountain tourist site in Tay Ninh Province.

Forest rangers of south central Phú Yên Province’s Tuy Hòa City have received two grey-shanked douc langurs, among the world’s 25 most endangered primates, from two locals.

Hundred metres of land along rivers and coastlines have been destroyed by unusually strong winds and waves, combined with rising tides in the southernmost province of Cà Mau.

The central island district of Ly Son plans to restore a whale skeleton and an exhibition centre for whale skeletons with an investment of 10 billion VND (442,477 USD).

Over VND510 billion (US$US22.3 million) is the total amount to be funded by the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong for the locality’s biodiversity conservation project during 2017-2020.

The Government needs to work out comprehensive solutions to control population and labour migraton in the Mekong Delta region to ensure security and defence, officials have said.

Storms and tropical depressions are likely to arrive earlier and with more frequency in the East Sea than in the average monsoon season, the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF) said.

Fishermen near Vung Ang Port are still making big catches despite recent concerns over the polluted discharges from Formosa Ha Tinh into the local water.