Environment

Japan funds Vietnam’s forestry projects

The Japanese Fund for Poverty Reduction, through the Asian Development bank, has promised to grand 1.5 million USD to help Vietnam pay for forestry environmental services during the 2014-16 period.
The Japanese Fund for Poverty Reduction, through the Asian Developmentbank, has promised to grand 1.5 million USD to help Vietnam pay forforestry environmental services during the 2014-16 period.

The Vietnamese Government also contributed 150,000 USD to thetechnical assistance project which will help work out the criteria foreconomic evaluation of environment services at provincial level as wellas the procedures for pilot programmes and the payments for forestryenvironmental services.

Speaking at the signingceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding on July 29, Deputy GeneralDirector of Vietnam’s Forestry Administration at the Ministry ofAgriculture and Rural Development Vo Dai Hai said that Vietnamintroduced a policy on payments for forestry services in 2008 and hadcollected 1 trillion VND (47.6 million USD) annually from theseservices.

However, it still faced with problems incarrying out the policies because of poor communications, inadequatestaff and not enough individuals being allocated to forestry protection.

ADB Country Director Tomoyuki Kimura said that thebank will continue to promote green growth in Vietnam includingimproving payments for forestry services. In 2010, Vietnam introducednew regulations on payments for forestry environmental services, whichtook effect in 2011.-VNA
Follow VietnamPlus

See more

The poacher, Tran Van Binh, 57 years old, residing in Tan Nam hamlet, Tan Binh commune, Tan Bien district, was found with a homemade gun and three poached animals. (Photo: broadcast by VNA)

Wildlife poachers arrested in Tay Ninh's national park

The poacher, Tran Van Binh, 57 years old, residing in Tan Nam hamlet, Tan Binh commune, Tan Bien district, was found with a homemade gun and three poached animals including two cheo cheo (Chevrotain) classified in group IIB of endangered, rare wildlife as per Decree 84/2021/ND-CP and a hawk (Pandion haliaetus).

The Hatinh langur is one of many wild animals released back into their natural habitat. (Photo: baoquangbinh.vn)

Rare animals released back into the wild

The released animals include one Hatinh langur (Trachypithecus hatinhensis), two Keeled box turtles (Cuora mouhotii), two Impressed tortoises (Manouria impressa), three Pygmy slow lorises (Nycticebus pygmaeus), one Big-headed turtle (Platysternon megacephalum), four Bourret’s box turtles (Cuora bourreti), and one Bengal monitor lizard (Varanus bengalensis).

A Scincella truongi Pham lizard (Photo: VNA)

Two new lizard species discovered in Vietnam

The discovery of these two new lizard species provides further evidence of Vietnam’s exceptional biodiversity, particularly in the Sop Cop Nature Reserve in Son La province, and the south-central coastal region. This also highlights Vietnam’s critical role as a global biodiversity hotspot for reptiles and amphibians in the Indochinese region.

The event draws crowds of participants. (Photo: NDO)

Cycling inspires greener Ho Chi Minh City

Hosted by the Dutch Consulate General in coordination with the Vietnam-Netherlands Friendship Association and the Dutch Business Association in Vietnam, the February 16 event welcomed two Dutch cyclists who traveled nearly 20,000 kilometers across 24 countries to Vietnam.