Students and lecturers from five of Việt Nam’s traditional medicine universities developed communications strategies to combat the use of illegal wildlife products in traditional medicinal treatments.

The southernmost province of Cà Mau is taking preventive measures to manage pollution hotspots at industrial zones and clusters, intensive shrimp-farming establishments, and aquaculture processing facilities.

A community clean-up event to mark Earth Day brought together more than 2,000 volunteers from associations, organisations and universities besides local residents, who picked up garbage at 12 locations in HCM City yesterday.

Việt Nam is reviewing and updating the country’s carbon emission target to better comply with the Paris agreement on climate change and prepare for the global assessment later this year.

Noise pollution is worsening in HCM city, posing health risks and contributing to social disorder.

The central province, in co-operation with the Centre of Biodiversity Conservation, GreenViet, began an urgent conservation project for two herds of gray-shanked douc langurs (pygathrix cinerea) in a forest of Núi Thành District’s Tam Mỹ Tây Commune.

Land-based solutions are urgently needed to address the leakage of plastic waste into the ocean and other waterways, experts said on Thursday (April 19) at a workshop held in HCM City.

Members of the Cần Thơ City People’s Committee and a National Assembly committee have recommended building new landfills and concentrated waste treatment plants that meet national standards to preserve environmental quality in the city.

 An illegal logging site has been found in part of the Kôn River protected forest – the fourth recorded case of logging violations in the central province since January.

 Dương Đông, the largest river that supplies water for Phú Quốc Island in southern Kiên Giang Province, is polluted with garbage and waste water.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has sent an urgent message to the Peoples’ Committees of cities and provinces, urging them to take measures to protect forest and prevent illegal forest destruction.  

 HCM City was able to reach four of its 16 goals in pollution reduction as part of its 2016-2020 programme to reduce pollution, according to city authorities speaking at a conference held on Friday in the city.  

Poor infrastructure investment in waste treatment and financial and technical assistance has prevented Việt Nam escape from world top five-country with mass solid waste releasing to the ocean.

Phạm Văn Tân, 78, of HCM City’s Lạc Long Quân District, with wrinkled and tanned skin, is using a wooden stick with an iron hook to pick up waste in Cầu Mé Canal as usual.

Dozens of fish were found dead in four detention basins in the past few weeks in the coastal province of Quảng Ninh, emanating a stench.

As many as 140 hectares of forest will be planted in the U Minh Thượng National Park in the Mekong Delta province of Kiên Giang in 2018, while various measures will be carried out to preserve biodiversity in the park, said director of the park Phạm Quốc Dân.

The northern province of Hưng Yên has prepared a list of 13 enterprises that need improvement for causing environmental pollution last year.

Mineral exploitation on one hand has made certain contributions to economic development of northern mountainous Hà Giang Province over the past years but has left serious corollary to the environment and social life of local people due to poor management, the Vietnam News Agency reports.  

The Mekong Delta province of Sóc Trăng will carry out an action programme for sustainable forest management in its two coastal districts under the project “Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation” (REDD+).  

Smart energy is one of the most important factors in making over HCM City as a smart city, especially in the context of climate change, a seminar heard on Friday.