A project on sustainable forests, jointly implemented by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), has officially launched.
Wild elephant habitats in the southern province of Dong Nai are being reduced and degraded, leading to a lack of food and more conflicts between animals and humans, according to local authorities.
The forest management department of the central province of Quang Nam signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation with its counterpart body in Laos’ Sekong province on March 16.
A project was carried out in Ben En National Park in the central province of Thanh Hoa to evaluate the preservation of rare water birds from 2013-2016 as part of efforts to devise solutions to protect the animals.
Forest rangers are ramping up efforts to protect the seven-elephant herd which recently showed up at the forest edge in Quang Nam province’s Que Lam commune.
Local residents are concerned about timber being smuggled on the Dak Bla River in the Central Highland province of Kon Tum, after authorities failed to stop the illegal activity.
World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) and Vietnamese nature authorities on December 14 kicked off an emergency project to protect the biggest herd of elephants in the country from extinction.
The Central Highlands province of Dak Nong is surveying the volcanic cave system in Krong No district to compile a dossier seeking UNESCO’s recognition as a global geopark.
Located within Bai Tu Long Bay and near the UNESCO-recognised Ha Long Bay in the northern province of Quang Ninh, Bai Tu Long National Park is a natural treasure for Vietnam.
A large number of wild animals have recently been released into the wild, according to Nguyen Van Hai, Director of the Forest Ranger Sub-department in the southernmost province of Ca Mau.
Tuyen Quang province plans to have an additional 866 hectares of forest granted with sustainable forest management certificates in line with the Forest Stewardship Council standards by the end of 2016
A training course on strengthening the enforcement of the law on wildlife protection was held in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong from September 13-16.
As many as 360 domestic and foreign tourists have registered for a tour to explore Son Doong, the largest natural cave in the world, in the central province of Quang Binh in 2017.
Baking weather has pushed the forest fire warning in six provinces to level V – the extremely dangerous level, according to the Vietnam Forest Administration under the MARD.
Many localities across the country, especially in the Northwestern, Central, Central Highlands and Mekong Delta regions, face extremely high forest fire risk due to hot weather and prolonged drought.
Authorities in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap are implementing various precautions to deal with the increasing likelihood of a forest fire emergency due to the prolonged dry period.
Over 37,000 hectares of forests in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang’s Phu Quoc island were put on level-five “extremely dangerous” alert for forest fires, stemming from prolonged drought.
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