Singapore on December 10 launched a project to restore 100,000 corals, starting with the cultivation of coral fragments in six specialised tanks on St. John's Island off the southern coast.
Although it is currently the tourist season, Pling Island in Southern Thailand has been closed since May 9 to allow the natural environment to have more time to recover after the discovery of extensive coral bleaching.
Bao Tich Tower is the most popular tourist attraction at Tu Van Pagoda in Nha Trang city, Khanh Hoa province, because of its one-of-a-kind design using coral, clams, and shells.
Vietnam’s ecosystems are in a strong decline and are threatened with losing their basic functions, experts said at a two-day conference that ended on Hanoi on November 7.
The landscape cluster of Hon Yen was recognised as a national relic site in April 2018. However, over-exploitation of tourism.has harmed the ecosystem in the area.
The An Thoi archipelago, Kien Giang province, is one of the few islands that have retained its pristine beauty with a crystal clear blue sea, fine white sands and Vietnam’s most stunning coral reefs
The Quang Ngai province has allocated 1.83 mln USD to support ecosystem recovery and biodiversity supervision, and step up the protection of the Ly Son Marine Protected Area (MPA) from 2018 to 2022.
Scientists from the Institute of Oceanography in Nha Trang city, the southern central province of Khanh Hoa, have built artificial reefs to aid coral recovery off the coast of Bang Thang cape.
Tourists visiting Cu Lao Cham (Cham Islands) in the central province of Quang Nam now can see creatures and coral reefs in the seabed thanks to a new service launched by a local tourist company.