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The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) recently issued a statement on closing down illegal wildlife markets across the Asia Pacific region.

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)-Vietnam and the Centre of Biodiversity Conservation, GreenViet, will work together on a project to protect the gray-shanked douc langurs incentral Quang Nam province’s Nui Thanh district in 2020.

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is coordinating with forest rangers of Zone 4 to organise a training course on combating wildlife trafficking, in Buon Ma Thuot city, the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak.

Over 1,500 baby sea turtles have been released into the sea at Nui Chua National Park in the central province of Ninh Thuan in the first 10 months of this year, rising 36 percent year on year.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has joined other leaders around the globe in voicing their support for an emergency declaration for nature and people ahead of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly this September.

The Vietnam Coalition for Climate Action (VCCA) was inaugurated during a ceremony held in Hue city of the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on August 21.

More than 800 volunteers joined a campaign to clean Kim Lien beach in the central city of Da Nang on August 7, which was jointly held World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Vietnam, Prudential Vietnam and the municipal Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

A campaign to promote the fight against plastic waste and release of aquatic species to the nature was launched in Phu Quoc island district of the southern province of Kien Giang on June 8.

A project is being implemented in Vietnam to improve the eco-friendliness of the local textile-apparel industry, which is a big foreign currency earner of the country but also has considerable impact on the environment.

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has committed 3.5 million USD in financial support for forest biodiversity conservation in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue during 2012-2022.

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has promoted an Earth Hour event, campaigning for the restoration of the Bang Khun Thian mangrove forest on March 30.

A campaign to respond to the Earth Hour was launched in Hanoi on March 10, sending the message “saving energy, protecting earth”.

A new study has provided the first detailed information about the Annamite striped rabbit (Nesolagus timminsi) – a little-known lagomorph not discovered until 1995.​

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS) launched a project on October 26 to green Vietnam’s textile-apparel sector through improving water management and energy sustainability.

A new World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) report finds that ASEAN’s biggest banks are increasingly aware of the impact their businesses have on the environment and society, but are slow to act on the huge potential they hold in addressing climate change and financing sustainable food, energy and infrastructure systems in the region.

The “Responsible Asia Forestry and Trade Partnership” project (RAFT3) funded by the Australian Government has provided technical support for three Vietnamese companies in sustainable forest management, heard a workshop in Tuy Hoa city, the central province of Phu Yen, on August 9.

The central province of Thua Thien-Hue has recently launched a project to preserve wildlife in the central area of Truong Son Mountain Range using non-refundable aid from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Vietnam.

Representatives of more than 40 Vietnamese and German companies in Vietnam pledged to adopt a zero-tolerance policy towards wildlife crimes at a workshop in Hanoi on June 29.

A camera trap has caught the large-antlered muntjac, one of the rarest and most threatened mammal species of Southeast Asia, for the first time in the central province of Quang Nam.

The population of Cambodia's critically endangered river dolphin is growing for the first time in decades, hailing a major turnaround for the freshwater species.