The Government aims to boost the effectiveness of management over the nation's forest by establishing a forestry information network with the help of the Government of Finland and the Trust Fund for Forests (TFF).
Despite a decade of development, the Mekong Delta’s tourism industry has failed to show robust growth. Uninspired tourist packages, limited advertising, a lack of tourism investment promotion and poor human resources training, all plague the industry.
The Central Highlands province of Dac Lak will set up a 200-hectare elephant sanctuary at the Yok Don National Park under a project to preserve wild and domestic elephants. Prof Bao Huy of Tay Nguyen University’s Agriculture and Forestry faculty said the centre would provide a heaven for wild elephants.
The important role that businesses can play protecting the nation’s endangered wildlife and conserving its natural resources was highlighted at a workshop ending last week in Vinh Phuc Province.
The UN lauded Vietnam’s efforts in coping with climate change as exemplary while Luxembourg promised further aid to help the country adapt to climate change as a result of Copenhagen talks.
The earth is the common home for mankind, so coping with climate change is urgent and responsibility of all nations, said the Vietnamese Government leader. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung made the statement on Dec. 16 at the UN climate change conference being held in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Vietstar Joint Stock Company is scheduled to officially inaugurated on Dec. 18 a solid waste treatment facility in HCM City’s Cu Chi District that it says is the first of its kind in Southeast Asia.
Aquatic products output from the Mekong River will be halved to 200,000 tons a year in the coming time due to the impacts of climate change and the construction of 19 hydropower dams in the upper reaches of the river, said a researcher.
Vietnam hosted a seminar in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Dec. 14 (local time) to introduce its efforts in response to climate change and call for support from developed nations and international organisations.
Saigon-Thai Son Real Estate JSC, a subsidiary of Thai Son Corporation, last Saturday broke ground on a tourism property project called Sunshine Hill in Phan Thiet City in the central coast province of Binh Thuan, some 200 kilometers from HCMC.