The Forest Protection Department is investigating the origin of three giant trees which have just been seized while being transported for sale.

VietNamNet would like to introduce an article by Jake Brunner and Brian Eyler about the need to foster cooperation among Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in protecting the Mekong River.

 The capital city of Hanoi will focus on wastewater treatment systems in all industrial parks by 2020 as part of its efforts to enhance environmental protection.

 The US and Vietnam inaugurated the Energy Security Dialogue that the US only held in five countries over the world so far.

 The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries have made stunning progress over the past quarter century. Once plagued by poverty, they are now economic success stories.

 Two bears have been rescued from a farm in the northern province of Ninh Binh Province by the Four Paws Viet organisation, ending bear keeping in the area.

 A regional training workshop on public weather services opened in Hanoi on March 27 for countries participating in the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)’s Severe Weather Forecasting Demonstration Project (SWFDP).

The three-day event, a match-making platform for key stakeholders in the renewable energy sector, has brought together some 30 local investors and international developers and investors.

 Local people living along the Nguyen Tat Thanh Beach in the central city of Da Nang have complained that the sea water became black with brown foam and a foul smell.

 Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV), a non-governmental organisation working on wildlife conversation in Viet Nam, on Thursday, submitted an appeal to the Hanoi People’s Court.

 Hanoi has paid more attention to collecting and treating packaging of plant protection products and veterinary medicines after use, reported Economy and Urban Affairs newspaper.

 Many people in Trung Tu Ward, Dong Da District, Hanoi, have blamed Hanoi Medical University Hospital for discharging sewage and polluting Lu River.

 The People’s Court of Ha Dong district in Hanoi on March 20 handed down a jail sentence of 13 months on Nguyen Mau Chien for smuggling 36kg of rhino horn, according to the Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV). 

 A large area of forest in the central province of Quang Binh has been found to be illegally destroyed for timber.

 Dozens of households in Duc Tho District, Ha Tinh Province are complaining about pollution caused by an overloaded dumping site in the area.

 Viet Nam is struggling to find solutions, especially ‘green’ solutions to address challenges in water resources management with environmental damage, climate change and unsustainable water exploitation driving the water-related crisis.

 Sixty collectors of wild medicinal and aromatic plants met in Bac Kan on Thursday to report their achievements in implementing a programme titled “Enhancing Management and Benefit Flows in VN's Wild Medicinal Products.”

 Environmental police in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on Wednesday found about 40,000 tonnes of solid waste dumped illegally in the area of Da Lat Waste Treatment Factory in Xuan Truong Commune, Da Lat City.

Construction investors are often totally indifferent to the storm of dust, construction waste and general filth their projects unleash on the general public. 

 The Bac Lieu Bird Sanctuary in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu is facing a level-4 risk of fires, which is likely to be raised to level 5, the level of extreme danger, said the sanctuary management board on March 13.