The country's biggest commercial hub is being flooded with a mountain of rubbish that is becoming increasingly costly to treat. Each day, 6,000 tonnes of household waste are produced in HCM City, and the amount is expected to rise by 10 per cent annually for the foreseeable future, city officials have said.
A new wildlife rescue center will be built in Hoang Lien National Park in the northern province of Lao Cai.
Provincial authorities said on Monday they are close to approving the Fauna and Flora Rescue Center project, which will be housed 18 km south west of the famed resort town of Sa Pa.
Do Thanh Hai, head of the Forestry Management and Protection Division under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) talked with Viet Nam News about ways to combat forest fires.
The Ministry of Trade and Industry and German Technical Cooperation Organization (GTZ) on July 21 signed an agreement on wind power development cooperation worth Eur1 million. Under this agreement, the German government will provide Vietnam with Eur1 million to design a legal framework for a wind power grid and a wind power development plan.
The Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) and HCM City authorities, on July 16, kicked off a programme to retrofit buildings to make them energy-efficient. The programme, which aims to cut energy consumption in existing buildings, is sponsored through former US President Bill Clinton’s Clinton Foundation.
Buon Don District has long been famous for its elephants, with many local rituals centered on the huge beasts. But elephant tourism is not bringing in enough money to assure their future.
A waste sorting project to promote environmental protection project in Hanoi - 3R (reduce-reuse-recycle) HN - will try to reduce buried waste in the capital city to 30 percent by 2015 and 70 percent by 2020. Launched in 2006, the project was implemented in a pilot model in Lang Ha, Thanh Cong, Phan Chu Trinh and Nguyen Du wards.
Project to increase public awareness about community-based natural disaster risk management has been approved by the Prime Minister, in a move to step up efforts to mitigate and prevent natural disasters at the nation’s 6,000 most vulnerable places.
Chairman of Binh Thuan People's Committee has just signed decisions on fining and temporary suspending 5 tourist sites for having been violating environment protection regulations: Vuon Da, Vuon Nho, Dong Hai, Bong Trang and Bien Dong.
Management boards of national parks will be handed more authority, in which buffer zone of the parks could be for rent to gain more benefit from forest. This is one of the stimulating policies on investing and developing special-use forest by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Ministry of Planning and Investment.