GPS collars will be fitted to 28 wild elephants in the Yok Don National Park in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, a workshop heard on June 29.
Yok Don National Park in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak signed an agreement with the Animals Asia Foundation on July 13 to become the first unit in Vietnam committed to applying elephant-friendly tourism.
The Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has rejected proposals for 17 small and medium-sized hydropower projects with combined capacity of 27.4 MW, a local official said.
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 MARD has proposed Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc suspend a project on hydropower plants in the Central Highlands Province of Dak Lak to protect the local environment and wild animals.