Environment

Vietnamese environmental police recently made a bust involving 822 kilos of rare animals in Ha Tinh Province.

Over forty conservationists met to discuss communication strategies in preservation activities at a training course in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap.

Thousands of monkeys are being held in overcrowded and barren farms in Laos and sold for international laboratory research, according to a report from a British animal protection group.

19 willow trees in the tourist town of Sapa have been chopped down, shocking local residents and visitors.

HCM City buries much of its solid waste instead of classifying and processing it, affecting the environment, and officials are calling for investment from more sources and greater use of technology.

The lower reach of the Mekong River has proved fertile waters for an array of giant fish, some of which weigh up to 500 kilos.

Thousands of Australians were ordered to evacuate their homes in Sydney's northwest and elsewhere in New South Wales state as heavy rainfall flooded rivers and waterways.

Pollution may be turning the planet's oceans acidic at a faster rate than at any time in the past 300 million years, researchers said.

Vietnamese and international scientists have discovered a new species of bat in the Cat Ba and Chu Mom Ray national parks of Vietnam.

Hong Kong's pandas Le Le and Ying Ying have been given some privacy away from the prying eyes of tourists this week in a bid to encourage them to mate, their handlers said.

A communication campaign to promote the use of safe water and environmental sanitation was reviewed at a seminar in Hanoi.

The Tram Chim National Park in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap has been recognised as the world's 2,000th Ramsar site, which lists wetlands of international importance.

Over 800 households in Thanh Hoa Province are struggling to maintain decent living conditions after the relocation of a water project.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development approved a project on sustainable management of protected forests using ODA loans from the Japanese government.

Solutions on removing difficulties for forestry processing and export businesses and an orientation for the sector’s sustainable development were highlighted at a forum in Ho Chi Minh City.

Nearly 200 households in Dong Nai Province are still waiting for compensation from Sonadezi Long Thanh Company for polluting their aquaculture areas and fruits.

The World Bank was to propose a global coalition to protect the oceans, aiming to raise $1.5 billion in the next five years.

Australian researchers Thursday revealed they had filmed a pod of extremely rare Shepherd's beaked whales for the first time ever.

Trai River, in Nghe An Province, has become seriously polluted by the wastewater from a mining and metallurgy company.