Together with other countries in the world, Vietnam has been taking actions to reduce plastic waste and the use of single-use plastic bags, towards a plastic bag free community.

On July 1, as West Lake discharged its flow into the To Lich River, the water color suddenly turned green, and the stench in the area significantly reduced. However, on the morning of July 2, the pitch-black color reappeared.

The city’s unique natural features with a dense network of rivers and lakes creates the distinctive geographical and beautiful, characteristics of the capital city.

The management board of the Con Dao National Park on June 28 announced a temporary suspension of swimming and coral viewing activities at several marine conservation areas from July 1 to September 30.

With the motto ’Wherever we go, it’s always clean’, they have carried out campaigns to clean up and pick up trash in polluted rivers and canals with the aim to revitalise the city’s waterways.

The province is asking for the the Government support it with VNĐ26.84 trillion, while it gets VNĐ2.31 trillion ($90.7 million) from the local budget and a further VNĐ2.05 trillion ($80.4 million) from socialised capital.

Two conservation projects to protect two endangered primates species – red-shanked douc langurs (Pygathrix nemaeus) and grey-shanked douc langurs (Pygathrix cinerea) – have been approved by the central city of Da Nang and Quang Ngai province.

On average, a Vietnamese person dies of a respiratory disease due to exposure to air pollution every 7.5 seconds.

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.