The hospital is now treating and caring for rare and precious wild animals such as pangolins, clouded monitors, binturongs, civets, stump-tailed macaques, rhesus macaques and ferret badgers.

To revive polluted canals, HCM City will have to clear 6,000 slums. It is estimated that the city will have to spend VND20 trillion for site clearance.

The General Department of Customs (Ministry of Finance) has directed local customs authorities to take immediate and stringent measures to prevent and manage the import of invasive alien species, particularly crayfish (Procambarus clarkii).

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently added Cat Tien National Park in southern Vietnam to its Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas.

The park is the second Green List site in Vietnam, alongside Van Long Wetland Nature Reserve, which was recognised in 2021.

The model not only successfully helped many local women start businesses, but also established a scholarship fund to ensure that many disadvantaged local children can attend school without worry.

The booming e-commerce sector, covering online retail and food delivery, is discharging an “alarming level” of single-use packaging and plastic waste.

Hit by drought and land degradation, Vietnam has been taking strong actions to enforce the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) to join global efforts against these global phenomena.

Ho Chi Minh City has been launching various joint dissemination campaigns and activities with businesses to encourage its dwellers to reduce the use of single-use or non-degradable plastic bags, and collect and recycle plastic waste.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has outlined tasks for related agencies to negotiate, sign, and implement agreements or contracts with international partners on carbon credit transfers.

A resident of Binh Chanh District in Ho Chi Minh City caught a rare 1.2-meter-long monitor lizard, weighing over 7kg, after it crawled into his house. The resident then voluntarily handed it over to forest rangers.

Mekong Delta provinces are seeking trillions of Vietnam dong for projects aimed at mitigating damage caused by severe river and coastal erosion.

Abnormal water temperatures in Con Dao have caused the corals to expel the colourful algae living in their tissues, leading to mass bleaching.

A red tide has surfaced in the Mun Beach area, southwest of Tho Chau Island (Phu Quoc City, Kien Giang Province), covering approximately 1,000 square meters.

Cutting-edge technologies like AI and Blockchain are reshaping the fight against climate change, offering a pathway towards early climate analysis, enhanced carbon transparency, and mitigation of negative impacts.

Vietnam is facing increasingly severe marine environmental pollution.

Labour-intensive removal efforts have brought snaring incidents down by almost 40 per cent in a region of central Vietnam, data has shown.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan said at the ongoing National Assembly session that there should be a statement to farmers that Vietnam is not a country with water abundance and water will become scarcer.

Nearly 50 years after the country was completely unified, thanks to policies from central and local authorities, Đồng Tháp Mười has become a wealthy area.

Discovering that papaya "tubes" could produce sound like a flute, Trinh Ngoc Huy Toan, 33, developed a passion for turning waste into original items.