On September 23, 2008 Dong Nai provincial Farmers’ Association in cooperation with Vinh Cuu district held a meeting to respond to the Clean up the World Campaign. The meeting was attended by central, provincial and Vinh Cuu District Farmers Associations’ leaders, 600 students and 700 local people.
The level of biodiversity in Viet Nam, one of the richest in the world, is being threatened despite several conservation measures taken by the Government, a government official has said.
Kim Hy Nature Reserve is threatened due to illegal logging by local residents in the reserve’s buffer and core zones, said Ha Xuan Minh, a forest ranger.
The central province of Quang Binh on September 18 started work on a 17.72 million EUR project on conservation and management of the natural resources at the Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park.
The Government plans to spend VND3.3 trillion (US$194 million) between 2008 and 2020 on environmental protection projects aimed at stopping water pollution in the Nhue-Day river basin.
The Mekong delta province of Bac Lieu boasts vast longan orchards, which data back over a century and have recently become an eco-tourist spot attraction.
The latest draft of Viet Nam’s first Biodiversity Law was discussed at a meeting jointly organised by the National Assembly’s Committee of Science, Technology and Environment and the UN Development Programme (UNDP).
Vietnam has been warned to stop wanton tuna fishing that is threatening sea tortoise to extinction before its tuna products are boycotted on the world market.
Hoi An City, in central Quang Nam Province, has given the go ahead to a rubbish management project to improve the environment of Cu Lao Cham island, where waste treatment has become an urgent problem over the past years.
Holcim Vietnam Ltd. will provide around 1 million USD to preserve and restore the ecological system of the limestone mountain in the Mekong delta province of Kien Giang from now until 2012.