Environment

Conservationists and scientists have strongly called on the Government to stop allowing organisations and individuals commercially farming and trading endangered species in Viet Nam.

Medical and domestic waste from Nghe An Oncology Hospital has heavily polluted the local channel in Nghe An Province because of dilapidated infrastructure and out-dated treatment plant.

About 30 households in Ky Anh Town, Ha Tinh Province, have signed a letter of complaint against the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment over the mass fish deaths in central region.

A week on elephant protection was launched in Nong Son district, the central province of Quang Nam on August 3 with myriad activities.

Indian wildlife officers appealed on Tuesday for help in caring for eight rare baby rhinos feared orphaned by recent deadly floods in the remote northeast.

Police in the central province of Ha Tinh has decided to prosecute the illegal dumping of toxic waste of Hung Hiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Limited Company in the area.

The Vietnam National Meteorological Center has said that from now until the end of the year, seven to nine storms and tropical depressions will affect the East Sea (internationally known as the South China Sea).

Experts have expressed severe concern that alkaline spills in bauxite exploitation in the Central Highlands could lead to environmental disasters on the same scale as caused by Formosa's recent toxic waste discharge in the central region.

Customs officers at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport on July 31 discovered a passenger illegally trafficking in forbidden rhino horns from Africa.

Farmers in the Mekong Delta are struggling to resume agricultural production because of the lingering effects of the recent drought and saltwater intrusion and a shortage of funds and seeds.

The Formosa Group has paid the first half of USD500m compensation after being found responsible for the mass fish deaths which badly affected tourism and fishing communities in the four central coastal provinces.

WildAid has launched a new campaign to raise the public awareness about the impact of the consumption of pangolin meat and scales in an effort to reduce demand for pangolin products in Asia.

The government has instructed to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to inspect projects across the country which have a big waste discharge amount from August this year following Formosa’s case.

Dozens of packs of the endangered southern white-cheeked gibbons have been spotted in the Dong Chau forest - Nuoc Trong stream area in the central province of Quang Binh.

A stream in Dak Nong Province has been severely polluted after an alkaline spill accident at an alumina plant.

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has called on Asian countries to close their tiger farms to boost efforts against the black-market trade in the cat’s parts.

The commercial farming and trade of endangered wildlife in Vietnam has the potential to threaten national biodiversity and facilitate the rate of extinction, heard a Hanoi workshop.

Vu Trong Hong, chairman of the Vietnam Irrigation Association has warned about the dangers Vietnam could face when Laos build a new hydropower plant on the Mekong River.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) has been intensifying inspections of “hot spot” areas in northern provinces of Thái Nguyên and Bắc Giang, and the central city of Đà Nẵng, where environmental pollution is said to be