Environment

Representatives from the Australian Embassy in Vietnam recently visited the Hoang Lien centre for wildlife rescue, conservation and development in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai to work on the care for suspectedly smuggled wallabies.

A delegation of the State Audit Office of Vietnam attended the 22nd meeting of the Working Group on Environmental Auditing of the International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions held in Finland from January 22 to 25.

Ten protected areas in Vietnam have participated in The International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas which is a set of global standards on successful conservation.

A Thai court on Friday ordered the government to come up with an urgent plan to curb air pollution within 90 days, as the kingdom braces for its annual peak of noxious haze.

The Government issued a directive addressing the escalating impacts of climate change and El Niño, leading to unpredictable weather patterns and heightened risks of drought, water shortages and saline intrusion.

A vast area of vegetable has been badly damaged by hail and whirlwinds that struck the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau's Muong Te District on Wednesday morning.

Da River’s water level has reached a record low for the second time for the past 30 years.

A water park operator in HCM City has voluntarily handed over three black bears to the Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre in Bach Ma National Park in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue Province.

Tay Ho District authorities in Hanoi have proposed a plan to upgrade and improve the water quality of the West Lake.

Northern Vietnam is expected to get warm before enduring a strong cold spell this weekend, according to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

Authorities in the central highlands province of Dak Nong are trying to curb the rising number of forest destruction cases as the dry season comes.

2023 marked a significant milestone for the forestry sector as Vietnam successfully sold 10.3 million forest carbon credits for the first time through the World Bank for 51.5 million USD.

Vietnam has raised nearly VND9.50 trillion (nearly USD388 million) to implement a 1-billion-tree-growing project over the past three years.

In the face of the worsening air pollution, Hanoi is rolling out measures to control activities that generate emissions and dust in the locality, especially the burning of rice straw.

A VND835 billion (USD34.51 million) waste-to-energy plant in the southern province of Binh Duong has been put into operation.

The central city of Da Nang topped the country in of the Environmental Protection Performance Indicators 2022 (PEPI 2022) with 73.33 points.

HCM City has been forecasted to witness an early heatwave at the beginning of this year, according to the Southern Hydro-meteorological Station.

A troop of eight rare monkeys which were cared for by an elderly woman in the central province of Quang Ngai has been handed over to Kon Ka Kinh National Park in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai.

A pig farm in the southern province of Binh Duong has been found to have discharged untreated wastewater into the Be River.