Environment

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

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has set up a special taskforce to supervise Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Co.'s operations for three years.

Intensifying the protection of forests in the Central Highlands from encroachment by hydro power plants, illegal deforestation and unplanned agricultural development would be the key to preserving water in this drought hit region.

The Dutch Government will give financial support to the implementation, operation and maintenance of the water drainage and wastewater treatment project in the southern province of Binh Duong as stipulated in an agreement signed on July 22.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has requested an investigation into the destruction of a pomu forest in military sub-zone 351 within Nam Song Bung protected forest in the central province of Quang Nam.

Quang Nam’s authorities are expanding an investigation into the illegal logging of a large amount of Fujian cypress in the border area adjacent to Laos.

The Inspectorate of the Binh Phuoc Department of Natural Resources and Environment, in collaboration with the Police Department, is carrying out an investigation to verify environmental violations allegedly committed by a Taiwanese livestock company, following the uproar over dumping

The waste dumped at a farm in Ha Tinh Province's Ky Anh Town is from Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corp. (FHS), a local environment official confirmed.

A leader of the northeastern Quảng Ninh Province has ordered a stop to coal transportation on major highways in the province by the end of 2016, in an attempt to curb illegal coal exploitation and transportation.

Another large dumping site has been found at Ky Anh District in Ha Tinh Province with the suspicion Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corp. is responsible.

Over the past week, more dead fish have been washed up on a beach in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue's Phu Loc District.

Local people living along Thi Vai River in Dong Nai Province are trying to adapt to the scant numbers of fish since the river was heavily polluted by Vedan Company eight years ago.

A photo contest entitled “Our Water, Our Life” has been launched in Hanoi to enhance public awareness of water security and climate change in Vietnam and around the world.

Five hundred households in Dong Ao and My Tho communes in the northern province of Ha Nam’s Thanh Thuy District claimed that they have been suffering serious environmental pollution for many years.

Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corp. (FHS) has denied their responsibility in the recent dumping of around 100 tonnes of toxic waste from its factory to a farm in Ha Tinh Province.

The Centre of Biodiversity Conservation (GreenViet), in co-operation with US-based San Diego Zoo Global and the management board of Bà Nà-Núi Chúa Nature Reserve has begun a wildlife supervision programme.

Deputy PM Trinh Dinh Dung has requested the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to co-operate with authorities of Ha Tinh Province in the inspection of the dumping of waste by the steel plant of Formosa.