Vam Sat – Can Gio eco-tourist site, located in Can Gio biosphere reserve (Can Gio district, HCM City), is a population of mangrove forests attracting eyes of tourists, especially international ones through land-based and water-based adventure tours.
Ho Ho hydropower dam in the central province of Quang Binh is being threatened by locals using explosives to catch fish.
Authorities in the southern province of Dong Nai have set long-term targets for building a green sustainable economy, with strategies that protect and expand the forest cover.
The People’s Committee of Ca Mau Province, the southern most tip of Vietnam, plans to invest nearly VND200 billion (USD9 million) to build an embankment to protect the Ca Mau cape area from further landslides.
HCM City could save as much as 30 per cent of the energy it spends on transportation if it develops an efficient public transport system, a conference on energy saving heard yesterday.
With its public transport inefficient, people prefer private vehicles to buses, sending fuel consumption soaring as the number of private motorbikes and automobiles increases relentlessly.
The People’s Committee of Dak Lak Province plans to set up an elephant sanctuary by 2014 at a total cost of approximately VND58 billion (USD3 million).
There is a stir in public opinion about the fate of the Cat Tien National Park after Cat Tien’s director has warned that the park would “die” because of the two hydropower plants to be built in the region, and an expert has pointed out that the reports on possible impacts on the environment are just “copies”.
Climate change will probably cause landslides, said experts at a recent seminar on surveying, assessing and warning landslide dangers in Vietnam's mountainous regions.
Vietnam needs a more comprehensive legal framework on natural disaster risk management, a conference heard on July 19.
A group of scientists who made a field trip to the area near Cat Tien National Park where two hydropower projects are planned said Thursday environment impact assessments for them could have been made up.