The Prime Minister has approved a master plan for a network monitoring national natural resources and environment monitoring network for 2016-2025 with a vision through 2030.
The Education for Nature – Vietnam (ENV) has initiated a “zero tolerance” policy on illegal hunting, trading and use of pangolins – which are on the brink of extinction.
Water shortages are affecting more than 57,000ha of rice farmland in the Mekong delta province of Kien Giang, with entire crops at risk of being wiped out completely due to the prolonged drought.
Knowledge of climate change, its impacts and measures to tackle and respond to the issue have been introduced to officials in Quang Ngai and Lai Chau provinces in a project supported by the UNDP.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental (MONRE) punished 520 companies for violating environmental laws with total fines reaching nearly 60 billion VND (2.6 million USD) in 2015.
The Vietnamese environment sector's main tasks this year include administrative reform, tightened controls on natural resources and more measures to tackle climate change.
The El Nino phenomenon in 2016 will cause freshwater shortage in Ho Chi Minh City and other southern areas, the National Hydro-Meteorological Service has said.
At least six families in Bang Lung Town in northern Bac Kan province were evacuated on January 3 after a sink hole 12 metres long and 20 metres deep appeared near their house on January 2.
The EVN and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development have agreed to regulate water held in hydropower reservoirs power supplies and water for agricultural production activities.
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has requested Ministries and sectors to accelerate the building of action plans for implementing the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The Bank for Investment of Development of Vietnam (BIDV) in Ho Chi Minh City on December 30 signed a contract to sponsor a green project in the southern hub.
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