Nearly 500 plants from five species have bên planted on 10,000 hectares of a forest in Dong Nai Biosphere Reserve, recognised in 2012 by UNESCO as one of eight biosphere reserves in Vietnam.
The Government of Vietnam has been implementing drastic measures to increase forest coverage in the Central Highlands region, while improving output of coffee and high value crops in easing deforestation.
Local households assigned to plant mangrove trees and breed aquatic species in forested areas are earning higher incomes in two coastal districts of Kien Giang province.
The planted forest area in Vietnam reached 128,800 hectares in the first eight months of this year, a year-on-year decline of 8.7 percent, due to floods in northern mountainous provinces in August.
The protection of forests in the Central Highlands from encroachment by hydro power plants, illegal deforestation and unplanned agricultural development would be the key to preserving water.
Malaysia police said on August 23 that they had found mass graves containing the remains of 24 people believed to be human trafficking victims in Burma area near the border with Thailand.
Integration of climate-change adaption strategies into policy
development, especially at the community level, is needed to cope with
weather changes in Vietnam's coastal areas, speakers urged at a workshop
held in Can Gio last week.
Representatives from Russian travel agencies and media organisations
will join familiarisation (FAM) trips to destinations in Quang Nam
on June 21-26, the provincial department of culture, sport and tourism
confirmed on May 14.
More perennial trees in the central province of Quang Nam have been cut
down as loggers have increasingly used reservoirs near new power plants
as a means of transport in the area.
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.
