Environment

The Ministry of Information and Communications and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development have issued a stamp set “Vietnamese Primates” on the occasion of the 25th Congress of the International Primatological Society hosted by Vietnam.

Elephant numbers are falling rapidly in Dak Lak Province and local authorities are struggling to protect the giant animals from the threat of extinction.

Bui Van Can, from Quynh Luu district, Nghe An province and his fellow crewmembers caught a rare giant ocean sunfish in the Gulf of Tonkin waters.

Nearly 700 households in a commune in Quang Binh Province have been without access to clean water for years due to alum contamination.

HCM City customs officers on August 6 announced they seized three African elephant tusks sent from France to Danang city, with an estimated cost of VND3 billion (nearly US$150,000).

A rare and endangered sea turtle that caught in a fishing net off the coast of Quang Binh Province has been released to the sea.

A fund has been established, called "One Million Trees for Vietnam", that has gone to plant 40,000 trees around several historical sites at Dien Bien Phu.

HCM City authorities have announced a list of polluting companies and ordered the perpetrators to clean up their act by next year.

Authorities of the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong are close to completing their report on the Lang Biang biosphere reserve to be submitted to UNESCO for recognition this September.

The HCM City People’s Procuracy has recently appealed against the verdict of two years probation handed to a rhino horn trafficker, asking for a stiffer sentence.

The Mekong Delta must come up with ways to address the consequences of climate change, especially rising sea levels and salinity intrusion, delegates said at a recent workshop in Hanoi.

In a bid to protect wild animals, private businesses are teaming up with Education for Nature-Vietnam (ENV), a non-governmental organization, to promote the conservation of nature and the environment.

A female bear, weighing 150 kilograms, was shifted from the Central Highland Dak Lak Province to the Tam Dao Bear Rescue Centre in the northern Vinh Phuc Province on July 30.

Japan announced Tuesday that it had wrapped up a whale hunt in the Pacific, the second campaign since the UN's top court ordered Tokyo to halt a separate slaughter in the Antarctic.

Customs officials have arrested a Chinese woman and a Vietnamese man at Suvarnabhumi Airport after they allegedly tried to smuggle out elephant tusks and ivory products worth about BAT9 million.

The Japanese Government on July 28 approved a grant of nearly VND13.5 billion in non-refundable aid to central Thua Thien Hue province for the second phase of a disaster risk mitigation and adaptation project.

Residents in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa have been suffering from high levels of pollution caused by hundreds of unregistered manufacturers operating in populated areas, according to the Lao Dong (Labour) newspaper.

A climate change adaptation project funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) kicked off in Tra Vinh province on July 25.

The population of large flying foxes (Pteropus vampyrus) living in the southern Ca Mau Province is facing depletion in its numbers.