This year will be a promising year for attracting international cooperation to strengthen Viet Nam’s environmental protection, experts said. Many enterprises in Viet Nam have been getting support from the EU to improve its environmental protection, according to Tran Hong Long, coordinator of a project called Cleaner Production for Better Products.
Serious drought in the north and rising sea levels in the south may cause significant losses to farmers in the winter-spring harvest, according to a forecast by the National Centre for Hydrometeorology Forecasting.
The water level of the Red river reached its lowest level at 0.5m, reported the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting (NCHF) on Jan. 8.
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has recommended that Vietnam goes through the necessary procedures so that the coastal areas of the Mekong delta provinces of Soc Trang, Tra Vinh and Ben Tre can be recognised as a world biosphere reserve.
A new species of warbler has been discovered in the karst limestone countryside of Viet Nam and Laos by scientists from BirdLife International, the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, and the Wildlife Conservation Society.
A seminar January 3 in the central resort town of Da Lat highlighted the importance of developing ecotourism in conjunction with the region’s flower-growing capacity.
Environmentally friendly products and production methods are attracting both local customers and foreign importers, according to experts.
A large number of adult and young wild birds in the Mekong Delta’s Bac Lieu Province are ending up on dinner tables and uncontrolled poaching is pushing several rare species to extinction, experts warn.
The People’s Committee of Thua Thien-Hue province has recently received a foreign-funded project on building a preservation zone for Sao La deer (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis) and other endemic cloven-hoofed animals.
Sheraton Hanoi Hotel is one of the first international hotels to apply and introduce the innovative environmental technology for saving energy for customers in Vietnam.