Environment

The Customs seized a truck illegally carrying nearly 800 pigeons from China to Vietnam across the border in northeastern Quang Ninh Province's border gate Mong Cai City on Sunday.

More than 300 elephants and other animals have died of cyanide poisoning by poachers in Zimbabwe's largest game park, a wildlife conservation group said Monday.

A flower bike parade was held in Nguyen Tat Thanh Square in the central coastal city of Phan Thiet, Binh Thuan province, on October 20 to call for maritime environment protection.

The Arex-13 exercise, rehearsing natural disaster response, will be held on October 23 in Ba Vi, Hanoi and involve 10 participating ASEAN countries.

Peru has dramatically increased its sales of shark fins to Asia, triggering the slaughter of about 15,000 dolphins a year used as bait, officials said Friday.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment sent three officers to central Thanh Hoa Province to direct the excavation of expired chemicals and pesticides dumped by Nicotex Thanh Thai Joint Stock Company.

Australian and New Zealand scientists Thursday said they have devised the "first rigorous framework" on deciding whether to relocate endangered animals threatened with extinction by climate change.

Vietnam’s annual average temperatures have risen 0.7 degrees during the past 50 years and sea levels have risen by 20cm, has told October 15’s second annual coastal forum.

One of Vietnam's leading conservationists has blamed the study "Rhino horn consumers, who are they?" released by wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC and the WWF in late September for subsequent misunderstandings over Vietnamese wildlife intentions.

The People's Committee of central Thua Thien Hue province has decided to expand a nature reserve zone for the saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), a species classified as critically endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

Vietnam has received a USD30-million grant from the Norwegian government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions due to deforestation and forest degradation.

Longer heat waves and strong storms are forecast to hit Vietnam in coming years, with long summer monsoon in the northern region to decrease, heard this year's third National Forum on Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation.

Vietnam gives top priority to adapting to climate change to minimize the consequences of floods, tidal surges, salt infiltration, and landslides, says Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai.

Vietnam is one of few countries in the world home to species of primates which are at risk of extinction and in need of urgent protection, told an October 9 international conference.

Police in Nepal have arrested 14 rhinoceros poachers including the alleged mastermind of a cross-border smuggling ring, a national parks official said Monday.

The animal protection organisation Wildlife At Risk and the Phu Quoc Island Preservation Zone together launched a campaign in the island district on October 6, calling for the protection of Dugongs and other rare marine animals in danger of extinction.

ASEAN has called for more protection to be offered to critical ecosystems in the region in the face of increasing environmental fears.

Marine scientists warned Thursday that our oceans are declining more rapidly than previously thought -- becoming ever warmer and more acidic and losing oxygen at an alarming rate.

Understanding ecological risks (Ecological Risk Assessment or ERA) created by climate change is part of an approach to help communities understand the problems.