Ho Chi Minh City has urban planning for low-carbon sustainable development

Climate change is becoming more and more severe, mainly due to excessive greenhouse gas emissions from socio-economic development activities; therefore, Ho Chi Minh City has urban planning for low-carbon sustainable development.

Quang Ninh Province: Tourism development associated with environmental protection

(TITC) - Ha Long Bay where owns outstanding natural heritage values was recognised twice by UNESCO. Ha Long Bay plays an important role as a driving force to uphold socio-economic development of Quang Ninh Province. It has great contribution to the tourism development. In the process of developing and modernising it needs to pay attention to the conservation and environmental protection in Ha Long Bay to ensure developing the tourism in a sustainable way.

Exchanging trash for gifts in Khanh Hoa Province

Khanh Hoa Youth Federation in partnership with Zema Vietnam Company has just organized “Exchanging trash for gifts” program, helping raise environmental awareness as well as support kids at SOS Nha Trang Children’s Village.

Protecting oceans for a common future

The oceans nurture biodiversity and provide food, mineral resources and energy needed for life on the planet. However, the oceans are facing unprecedented threats from human activities, which have grown rapidly along with the world’s population.

Binh Thuan: Various activities to protect the environment at Hon Cau Marine Protected Area

Many environmental protection activities in response to "World Environment Day", "World Oceans Day", and “ Vietnamese islands and Island Week” in June 2022, according to the Management Board of Hon Cau Marine Protected Area (MPA). Accordingly, the program "Monitoring marine waste" on the shore at Hon Cau Marine Protected Area was conducted by staff and volunteers of the MPA. At the same time, scientific methods in monitoring and statistics of marine waste, especially plastic waste, generat

Thua Thien Hue: 70 turtles released at Sao La Nature Reserve

A total of 70 rescued turtles were released back to the wild on July 12 at the Sao La Nature Reserve in the central province of Thua Thien Hue, the biggest number of the species received here so far.

Refusing to sort garbage will result in fines from August

Households and individuals that fail to sort domestic solid waste as prescribed will be fined from VND500,000 to 1 million (US$21.4 - 42.8), according to a decree issued by the Vietnamese Government.

Ministry quashes plans to build road through biosphere reserve

The Ministry of Transport (MOT) has assessed that the construction of a road through the Dong Nai biosphere reserve, to connect Binh Phuoc and Dong Nai provinces, should not go ahead as it would have a great impact on the ecosystem of the reserve.

Quang Binh’s national park receives three rare impressed tortoises

The Wildlife Rescue and Protection Centre at the Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park in the central province of Quang Binh on July 9 received three rare impressed tortoises (Manouria impressa), an endangered species needing to be protected.

“Preserving the Saola’s Footprints on Truong Son Mountains”

That was the theme of the Saola (spindlehorn or Asian unicorn) exhibition in response to the World Saola Day July 9, which was held by the Provincial Forest Protection Department in collaboration with the World Wide Fund for Nature in Vietnam (WWF-Vietnam) at the Hue Children’s House on July 9.