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A 4kg hawksbill turtle, a rare species listed in the Red Book of Vietnam and the world, was released in the central province of Binh Dinh on June 25.

The US General Consulate in HCM City on April 22, on the occasion of Earth Day, awarded prizes and certificates to the winners of a contest to design a logo for the Save the Dugong campaign.

Vietnam Air Service Company (VASCO) announced that it has resumed the air route between the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho and Con Dao Island.

The American Centre under the US Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City launched a logo design contest for a “Save the Dugong” campaign on March 20.

The Wildlife at Risk (WAR) and the southern province of Kien Giang on July 27 put into operation the Hon Me Rescue Station in Hon Dat district.

The organisation, ‘Education on Nature Vietnam ’ (ENV), has announced a new website where people can identify many different kinds of species to encourage community’s to protect Vietnam ’s wildlife.

Vietnam is looking to conserve and develop its population of domestic wild tigers in order to, with other countries, help double the global number of wild tigers over the next decade under a new draft national programme.

Students at 40 secondary schools in Ho Chi Minh City have been learning about wildlife preservation through extracurricular classes offered in temporary tents set up on their campuses.

A sea turtle of a rare species weighing 15 kg was released to the sea on March 21 in the southern province of Bac Lieu.

A cartoon symbolising the extinction of the rhino won top prize at the third The Thao & Van Hoa (Sports and Culture) newspaper's press caricature competition, which, this year, focused on the environment.

Wild animals in the mountainous districts of Mekong Delta An Giang and Kien Giang provinces are facing a serious extinction threat.

A travelling exhibition that is an emergency assistance call for saving wildlife in Vietnam will target school children in HCM City.

Local authorities are searching for a new habitat for the critically endangered Indochinese silver langur (or Trachypithecus germaini), to save the species from extinction.

The critically endangered Javan Rhino has been wiped out in Vietnam , WWF Vietnam and the International Rhino Foundation confirmed in a report released on Oct. 25.

Prompt measures should be taken to adapt to climate change at a time when it is increasingly affecting the city, a HCM City official has said.

The widespread consumption of wild meat, coupled with illegal animal trafficking, is putting endangered species at risk.

A meeting has been held to mark the 50th anniversary of the day when AO/dioxin was first sprayed in VN.

Hunting shark for their fins is popular in the central coastal province of Binh Dinh because Vietnam has not prohibited the practice.

“The future of tigers depends on our actions” was the message of a seminar held in Hanoi on July 29 to raise public awareness and support for the conservation of a species on the brink of extinction.