On the occasion of the World Wetlands Day, the Office of Natural Resources and Environment Planning and Policy (ONEP) calls upon the Thai people to consider the importance of wetlands.
Hanoi has begun to modernise old air-quality monitoring stations this year under a plan approved by the Hanoi People's Committee. The old system was believed to be complicated and show little effectiveness in monitoring air quality.
The Lepironia articulate grass field in Phu My commune, Kien Luong district, the southern province of Kien Giang, has received the first flocks of red-headed cranes. By Feb. 1, as many as 20 red-headed cranes have come to the grass field reserve to seek for food after a long time of absence.
Developing tourism products from sand, salt and rubbish, thus diversifying the current poor sea tourism products in Vietnam is the latest idea initiated by the scientists of the Scientific Union for Sustainable Tourism Development STDe.
Some lakes and ponds in Hanoi have disappeared during the urbanization, while many others are getting narrowed, and many of them are getting seriously polluted.
The annual New Year boat race festival opened on Ly Son island in the central province of Quang Ngai on January 26.
Across southern Florida, rabbits, raccoons, bobcats and foxes have been disappearing at dramatic rates over the past decade, and invasive Burmese pythons are to blame, a US study said.
Gau Tao – a spring festival of H’Mong ethnic minority people – is a cultural event attracting a large number of visitors.
A lot of regulations have been promulgated, while a lot of action plans have been drawn up within the framework of the sea conservation strategy. However, not much has been done to protect the sea.
A rare pine tree, listed in Vietnam’s Red Data Book, has been on sale recently in the northern province of Lao Cai.