Environment

Zimbabwe National Parks have said that it is difficult to track down poachers who used cyanide poison to kill the animals since they could sneak into game parks with the lethal substance.

Four men in central Quang Nam Province were fined VND6 million for killing two weasels and posting their actions on Facebook.

Pollution in nearly 80 percent of Chinese cities surveyed by Greenpeace "greatly exceeded" national standards over the first nine months of this year, the advocacy group said.

Vietnam hopes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 8 per cent a year by 2030. This is equal to about 787.4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide.

HCM City's District 2 wants a chemical storage site near residential areas moved after years of complaints.

Wild animal traps were found in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in the central province of Quang Binh, the Park’s management board said.

The Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre has successfully rescued many bears, but faces challenges in their rehabilitation and their eventual release into the wild.

Indonesia agreed Thursday to accept international help to combat forest and agricultural fires cloaking Southeast Asia in haze, after weeks of failed attempts to douse the blazes that have infuriated its neighbours.

Indonesia has unveiled its third batch of stimulus measures in the space of a month, including a cut to energy prices, as Southeast Asia's biggest economy battles a slowdown.

Tay Ninh’s Forest Management Department said on October 6 it was completing procedures to hand two Mustela putorius weasels and two Manouria emys turtles to the Kien Giang forest management department’s Wild Animal Rescue Centre.

Thick haze blanketing HCM City in recent days has been blamed on city pollution and possibly the affects from forest fires in Indonesia as local experts claim.

Fifty highly-polluted craft villages across Hanoi will be helped with waste treatment between now and 2020, according to the municipal Department of Industry and Trade.

Viet Nam's Law on Forest Protection and Development has become backwards and exposed numerous disadvantages, after more than 10 years of implementation, a senior official from the Viet Nam Forestry Administration has said.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has called on Indonesia to take action against people setting fires that have caused choking smoke to drift across the region, with the sky over southern Thailand the latest to be clouded by the pollution.

Vietnamese scientists and foreign partners have discovered new plant organisms living 1,000 metres above sea level at the Hon Ba Natural Reserve 30 kilometres away from central Khanh Hoa province’s Nha Trang city.

Hundreds of people in Thanh Hoa Province surrounded the Thanh Son communal headquarters to oppose a decision to build a waste treatment plant.

The gas-rich United Arab Emirates will invest $35 billion in clean energy by 2021 as it seeks to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels following crude's global price slide, it said.

The El Nino weather patterns are expected to be severe between this October and next February, possibly causing serious water shortages in many areas across Vietnam, experts forecast.

About 50 international and domestic companies are displaying their technologies to protect the environment at the International Exhibition on Environment 2015 by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.