Environment

The central Quang Ngai Province's forest management department began legal procedures today to shift a grey-shanked douc langur to the northern Ninh Binh Province's Cuc Phuong Endangered Primate Rescue Centre.

Heavy rains and lightning are expected to hit the northern region tomorrow afternoon, giving local residents a respite from the extremely hot weather that lasted nearly a week.

A conference highlighting the significance of marine protection in sustainable seafood development was held in the central province of Ninh Thuan.

An internationally-funded climate change response project in the Mekong Delta province Tien Giang has proved effective, providing local authorities and residents with a fundamental understanding of the issue.

Hundreds of people were sent to control a fire that broke out yesterday and destroyed more than 5ha of a pine forest in Nghe An Province's Yen Thanh district.

US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell has said her visit to Vietnam on June 29-July 1 aims to boost the US-Vietnam cooperation in the fight against wildlife trafficking, including elephant, rhino, sea tortoise, tiger, and pangolin.

Nguyen Vinh Lien, Head of the municipal Department of Irrigation, has called on units to speed up upgrades to embankments, irrigation systems and flood-proof initiatives to ensure maintained agricultural production during this year’s flooding season which starts from July

Policymakers and experts gathered at Can Tho City on Friday to discuss and propose an inter-provincial policy for the sustainable management of sediment in the Mekong Delta region.

Hundreds of precious perfumed trees (Pterocarpus macrocarpus) in Chu Mom Ray National Park have been felled. Local authorities knew nothing about the incidents until they were informed by media.

Close co-ordination between agencies is needed to safely manage PCBs (Polychlorinated Biphenyls) in Vietnam, according to officials yesterday at a meeting in Hanoi.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is planning to remove the eastern cougar from the endangered species list after determining the subspecies has likely been extinct for 70 years.

Vietnam wants to cooperate with international organisations and countries worldwide to preserve endangered wildlife animals, including pangolins which are on the brink of extinction due to illegal hunting and trading for meat and scales.

Warnings have been raised over Hanoi's river system, which has been severely polluted by untreated sewage, industrial waste and garbage, despite the efforts of authorities to improve the situation.

The central province of Nghe An’s People’s Committee has for the first time announced a state of emergency across the province due to prolonged severe drought occurring in the locality during the summer-autumn crop 2015.

The US Embassy in Hanoi and Freeland Foundation will launch a contest to highlight wildlife trafficking and rhino horn use in Vietnam at Hanoi Cinematheque on June 22.

Vietnam suffered from a shortage of clean water, polluted air and untreated garbage and waste.

Black-as-coal and smelling of something rank, the Nhue river snakes its way through the middle of Van Hoang Commune, Phu Xuyen District in Ha Noi. The polluted river is likely more than just an eyesore.

Residents in Ninh An Commune, Khanh Hoa Province are complaining a waste treatment factory is burning hazardous solid waste, which is polluting the environment.

Newly cleaned and dredged canals around HCM City are quickly being re-polluted by locals who dump waste directly into them.