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After the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday, the Vietnam Air Services Company (VASCO) operated five or six daily flights on the Ho Chi Minh City - Con Dao route, said Trinh Thi Phuong, head of the VASCO branch in Con Dao.

A survey recently conducted in the northern province of Ha Giang has found the largest group of the endangered Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys to date.

A survey recently conducted in the northern province of Ha Giang has found the largest group of the endangered Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys to date.

Vietnam has seen considerable achievements in ensuring sustainable environment over the past years, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Due to illegal hunting and deforestation over the years, the number of rhinos have diminished from about 800 individuals to just 100, Executive Director of Yayasan Badak Indonesia (YABI) Widodo Ramono was quoted as saying by a Jakarta-based Vietnam News Agency reporter.

A new set of postage stamps entitled ‘Vietnamese Primates’ will be issued in 2014 to commemorate the 25th International Conference on Primates, to be held for the first time in Vietnam.

Julio Benedetti, a tourism consultant and blogger from Brazil, explained on Viet Nam News why tourists can play part in lifting standards of living.

The biennial Vietnam press-caricature painting contest, the Rong Tre (Bamboo Dragon) Cup, kicked off on November 14 welcoming entries from amateur and professional caricaturists living in Vietnam.

Saola (known as Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), one of the rarest and most threatened mammals on the planet, has been photographed for the first time in Vietnam since 1998, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

Vietnamese scientists have discovered 46 medicinal plant species and remedies that may be able to replace endangered wildlife products used to cure diseases.

A workshop was held in Hanoi on October 22 to expand information to raise awareness of rhino protection and reduce demand for the animal’s horn.

A group of biologists have spent days trailing a troop of primates in Kon Ka Kinh National Park, before they eventually caught up with about 30 gray-shanked douc langurs having an afternoon meal in the treetops some 30 metres above the ground.

Around 150,000 Vietnamese lives may be at risk and another 5 million may contract harmful diseases due to global warming, according to research from the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The ecosystem-based approach (EBA) in bio-diversity conservation was discussed at a regional seminar in Hanoi on October 15.

Eighty domestic and foreign experts gathered at an international workshop in northern Ninh Binh province on October 9 to discuss how to protect rare and precious primate species in Vietnam.

The animal protection organisation Wildlife At Risk (WAR) and the Phu Quoc Island Preservation Zone together launched a campaign in the island district on October 6, calling for the protection of Dugongs and other rare marine animals in danger of extinction.

A number of poached tortoises weighing 30 kilograms were released back into the wild at the Tram Chim National Park in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap on September 26.

At a recent conference in Hanoi, experts delivered a message that rhino horn is not a magical medicine or a status symbol, and called for efforts to save the endangered wild animals. Report by the Nhan Dan Online.

The US consulate in HCM City hosts a fair on the dugong on August 8 to raise awareness about protecting the marine mammal.

Ngoc Linh ginseng, a precious medicinal species indigenous to the mountain of the same name in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum, has been conserved and developed to become a key commercial product.