HCM City has earmarked VND70.54 trillion ($3.3 billion) for 36 projects to mitigate the effects of climate change, which is expected to severely affect the city.
Thanks to its diversified microclimates and topography, Da Nang is one of the rare cities in the world in biodiversity. This city is a convergence of diverse systems of forests, sea and rivers with over 1,200sq. km including Hoang Sa island district.
Customs officials at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat Airport seized a Vietnamese man illegally transporting 21 kilograms of African elephant ivory tusk products into the country on June 30.
The 2013 Trans-Vietnam Cycling programme will begin on July 4 to raise public awareness of traffic safety and marine environmental protection.
Twenty-four students from universities in HCM City were working as volunteers at the Hon Me Wildlife Rescue Station in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Kien Giang.
Now the summer season is here (ironically during the middle of the rainy season) the weekend breaks of Saigonese are the norm and the hordes are heading off to Mui Ne and we thought we would join them. The rain sometimes gets to us all.
On 25th June, in Da Lat City (Lam Dong), World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) held a workshop to assess the current status, challenges and propose solutions for biodiversity conservation in the landscape areas of Southern Nam Truong Son.
A new species of bird with a distinctive orange-red coloured tuft of feathers on its head has been found in Cambodia's populous capital city, conservationists said on Wednesday.
At night when the owners of fish and shrimp lakes have to keep themselves vigil or hire guards to protect their lakes, Mr. Ninh can sleep until the morning because his shrimp lagoon is protected by storks. Several times, thanks to the cries of storks -- Ninh caught shrimp thieves.
The establishment of Con Co Island Marine Reserve is a basis for central Quang Tri province to manage its marine resources and environment in a collective, unified and effective way.