Over the past few years, the perception on climate change by the main policy makers and the leadership in Vietnam has shifted.
The Stork Island in Hai Duong Province is now the home to 16,000 storks and some 5,000 night herons that have been living on the three floating strips of land of the An Duong lake, the place with the most diversified ecosystem in the north.
A landmark resolution recognizing ecotourism as key in the fight against poverty, the protection of the environment and the promotion of sustainable development has been adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (21 December 2012).
When the landscape is embellished, an ancient pagoda in the southern province of Soc Trang has attracted thousands of bats, including endangered bats.
The approval of the Law on Water Resources and National Strategy for environmental protection through 2020, the introduction of climate change and sea level rise scenarios for Viet Nam are among top ten events of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) in 2012.
The ancient city of Hoi An will organise a lantern festival to greet the Lunar New Year on February 9- 16.
Mong ethnic minority residents of Hang Kia Village, nestled in northern Hoa Binh province’s Mai Chau Valley, are celebrating their Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival, starting on the first day of the 12th lunar month.
A programme advertising the national intangible cultural heritage will take place in the Central Highland city of Da Lat from January 22–26.
The Centre for Live and Learn for Environment and Community (Live and Learn) reported on the supervision of vulnerability to climate change of Vietnam in 2012, at its meeting on January 10 in Hanoi.
People living in the Song Hong (Red River) Delta are preparing to celebrate the Huong Pagoda festival 2013, which a local official has promised will be the biggest ever.