For the last several years, farmer Bach Cong Thiem from northern Hoa Binh Province has had to carry his load of bananas on foot for three hours to sell at a nearby market during harvest seasons.
The InnovGreen Nghe An Co. Ltd has presented more than 220,000 acacia trees to Con Cuong, Tuong Duong and Que Phong mountainous districts in central Nghe An province to help them green bare hills.
With royal ruins, limestone mountains, caves and crystal rivers, northern Ninh Binh Province has nearly everything a visitor could want.
Surpassing 1,639 photo entries, the photo “Morning Dew” by Dao Hoa Nu won First Prize of the “The relationship between Poverty and the Environment” photo contest that was held by the Vietnam Photographers Association in coordination with the Vietnam Environmental Economic Association. The photo contest was sponsored by the poverty reduction project of the UNDP (United Nations Development Program).
Hanoi, 15 October 2008-. WWF Greater Mekong and TRAFFIC Southeast Asia held the Awards Ceremony of the national “A Matter of Attitude” Print Ad Design Contest. An exhibition of the contest’s most outstanding artworks accrued from the competition was also launched and is open to the public. The contest and exhibition are part of a four-year awareness raising campaign that WWF and TRAFFIC are conducting to reduce the widespread illegal consumption of wildlife products in the country, with funding by the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA).
A USD 15 million project to improve the urban environment of Dong Ha town, central Quang Tri province was launched on October 16, 2008.
As many as 38 projects worth VND 1.089 trillion are being implemented to minimise pollution in basin of Cau River, which partly covers northern provinces of Bac Kan, Thai Nguyen, Bac Giang, Bac Ninh, Vinh Phuc and Hanoi.
The city badly needs supportive policies to develop the 3Rs (reduce, recycle and re-use of waste) industry to deal with the increasing amount of waste generated, municipal officials say.
The Prime Minister has approved a VND 85 billion plan to develop a system of inland water area conservation parks until 2020 with the aim of protecting and developing fishery resources and water ecosystems.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) awarded a World Biosphere Reserve certificate to a coastal wetland zone in the Red River Delta on October 13, 2008, making it the sixth of its kind in Vietnam.