Cham Island, a UNESCO-recognised world biosphere, has long been an alluring destination for visitors to the central province of Quang Nam. The island has been working hard recently to become a plastic-waste-free tourism site.
The central province of Quang Nam has carried out an array of measures to protect and promote the sustainable development of birds’ nests on Cham Island.
The Cham Island’s Marine Protected Area (MPA) management board and Quang Nam province’s rangers have released an endangered turtle to the local forest, three days after it was captured by a local farmer and handed to the MPA.
Authorities in Quang Nam Province, home to UNESCO-recognised Hoi An town, are considering allowing in fully vaccinated foreign tourists from February 2022.
The Management Board of the Cham Island Marine Protected Area in Hoi An city in central Quang Nam province finished a clean-up of the seabed to protect coral reefs in the waters of Cu Lao Cham (Cham Islands) on March 8 after a couple of days.
The Cu Lao Cham Marine Reserve in the central province of Quang Nam is implementing a project establishing a coastal fisheries management and development model for the country, funded by the Korea Fisheries Resource Agency (FIRA).
Tourism in Cu Lao Cham Island in general and coral diving in particular has attracted more tourists, contributing to the development of the tourism sector in the island
Hai Tang Pagoda is an ancient pagoda on Cu Lao Cham Island in Hoi An Ancient Town, central Quang Nam Province. It was built in 1758 to worship the Buddha and gods.
Arriving in Hon Lang wharf of the Cu Lao Cham island, tourists will immediately sea Tan Hiep seafood market and find it hard to resist the attraction of this market.
A ceremony was held on Cu Lao Cham island, Hoi An city, the central province of Quang Nam, on May 25 to mark the 10th anniversary of the recognition by UNESCO of the island as a world biosphere reserve.
Coral reefs have been revived on an area of 2,000sq.m in water off the Cham Island Maritime Protected Area (MPA) after a pilot project that ran from 2015-17.
Nearly 200 objects from shipwrecks in Vietnamese waters are on display at an exhibition that opened in the central coastal province of Quang Ngai on January 29.
More than 500 ceramic and porcelain objects retrieved from ancient shipwrecks in Vietnam’s sea are being on display at an exhibition opened at the Vietnam National Museum of History in Hanoi on January 18.
A large area of sea grass on the Cham Islands, off the coast of Hoi An, have been damaged due to the rapid increase in speed boats over the past several decades—another sign that mass tourism and unsustainable development threaten the rich ecosystem on the islands.
A marine project is underway in the central province of Quang Nam to save sea turtles as part of a local effort to protect the biodiversity in Cu Lao Cham (Cham Island) Marine Protected Area (MPA).
Quang Nam is reviewing tourism projects on Cham Island, a tourism magnet in Tan Hiep commune of Hoi An township, following reports on the environmental impacts of some construction activities.