Environment

The illegal market for bears and bear parts is still strong in Vietnam despite the introduction of legislation to ban their sale in 2006.

The US Agency for International Development will fund a US$10 million project on preserving rare species through reducing demand for illegal wildlife products.

Authorities in Hanoi have ordered an investigation into allegations of illegal waste dumping in the Red River, reported by Giao thông vận tải Magazine (Transportation Magazine).

The third International Wildlife Trade Conference opened in Hanoi on November 17 with the participation of 47 countries, the European Union, 7 international organisations and over 40 inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations.

Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha confirmed on November 16 that water in certain central provinces is “safe for tourism, sports and fishing.”

Britain's Prince William has arrived on his first visit to Vietnam where he will take part in an international conference on illegal wildlife trade in the fight to protect elephants, rhinos and other endangered species from extinction.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon voiced hope Tuesday that Donald Trump will "vary" his stance denying climate change as world leaders gathered in Morocco to keep a planetary rescue plan on track.

The year 2016 will "very likely" be the hottest on record, the UN said, warning of calamitous consequences if the march of global warming cannot be halted.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has said it will remove 471 small and cascade hydropower plants from its master plan and reject another 213 potential projects over environmental and efficiency concerns.

Tehran officials shut schools on Monday as the first of the winter's heavy pollution hit the Iranian capital.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam joined many young people on an event to clean up the area around Linh Dam Lake in Hanoi.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) reported the results of an investigation into Taiwan-invested Hưng Nghiệp Formosa Hà Tĩnh Steel Company’s efforts to deal with the environmental incident it caused in four central provinces.

Animals Asia Foundation on November 11 successful rescued four Asiatic black bears in the city of Pleiku in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai, thanks to the efforts of a local forest protection agency to communicate with the

From the beginning of 2017, Ho Chi Minh City will employ only electronic forms of communication using digital signatures for its departments and districts implementing professional exchange in resolving administrative records, putting an end to the use of paper documents.

Local authorities in Phu Quoc Island District in Kien Giang Province are searching for five local fishermen whose photos showing them killing a dolphin were shared on Facebook.

Rangers in Thừa Thiên-Huế Province’s preventive forest have discovered a population of some 78 red-shanked doucs (Pygathrix nemaeus), listed as endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Floods occurred again in the central provinces of Ha Tinh and Quang Binh, due to heavy rainfall and water released from a local power plant.

The Hanoi Centre for Wildlife Rescue has received an Asian black bear that was illegally kept for bile extraction for over a decade in the suburban district of Dong Anh, according to Education for Nature-Vietnam.

Vietnam will destroy over two tonnes of ivory and 70 kilos of rhino horn seized in recent smuggling cases according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.