Garbage dumped along dykes protecting once-beautiful Ly Son Island in central Quang Ngai Province is polluting the water, killing coral, prawns and sea vegetation. It has also created a foul stench that dominates the once fragrant sea air.
Saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis) on Truong Son Mountains are considered the most typical representatives for the biodiversity in Vietnam. However, over the last 20 years, since the day saola was discovered, 3/5 of the total saola individuals have disappeared.
Donna, believed to be the world's oldest hippo, has died at the age of 62 after living more than two decades beyond the massive mammal's usual life expectancy, zoo officials said.
The officers working at the Dai Nam Zoo these days are very busy taking care of a baby monkey which was born just nearly one month ago and the F2 Indochina tigers.
Drilling of the seabed off Antarctica has revealed that rainforest grew on the frozen continent 52 million years ago, scientists said Thursday, warning it could be ice-free again within decades.
The campaign on building standard toilets at tourist sites was launched two years ago. However, the toilet story remains burning now.
A seminar on the Vietnam-Laos partnership on investment and environmental protection was held in Nghe An province on August 2.
A photo contest focusing on young people’s appreciation of the local environment was on Wednesday launched in Danang City as part of the project ‘Environmentally-and-Climate-Friendly Urban Development in Danang’ by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (GIZ), attracting more than 200 participants.
Hundreds of strange birds which have appeared in Tan Thanh Ward in the northern mountain province of Dien Bien recently have been confirmed as the Asian openbill stork (Anastomus oscitans).
On July 15, in Ha Long city, Indochina Junk Joint Stock Company in collaboration with Department of Natural Resources and Environment, and JICA project has jointly held a training course on environmental protection and sustainable tourism development.