Pollution has caused the deaths of 72,000 fish in the south central coastal province of Phu Yen over the past month.

 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 French embassy and the French Development Agency (AFD) will provide a funding worth 120,000 EUR for a technical assistance project on assessing the status of the air environment in Hanoi.

 Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion has announced that his country will provide 15 million CAD to help small- and medium-sized enterprises in Vietnam with initiatives and technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 

 The cause of the foul odour plaguing some of the southern districts in HCM City will be made public before next Tuesday, the municipal Department of Natural Resources and Environment has promised.

 Vietnam has gained significant outcomes in the exploitation, management and conservation of marine resources over the past few years, an official has said. 

 It is unnecessary to use advanced technology to clean the marine environment in the four central provinces hit by the recent marine pollution as the coral reef ecosystem and seafood resources monitored there have shown signs of recovery. 

 VietNamNet Bridge - Many islets in the Mekong River have eroded seriously or even disappeared, to the regret of many former residents.

 It is necessary to promptly devise a national plan on environmental protection to serve as the foundation for appraising and approving investment projects in regions across the country.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many air monitoring stations in HCM City have not been working well for the last four years, so the city wants to build new stations to monitor inceasing air pollution.

 Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Co. Ltd, which was blamed for mass fish deaths along the central coast earlier this year, expects to fix all of its environmental protection problems by mid-2018. 

 The world’s second largest population of the critically endangered Delacour’s langur was recently discovered by Fauna & Flora International (FFI), giving fresh hope for one of the planet’s rarest species.

While the northern-central coastal region has been described as now being safe for tourism activities since the Formosa environmental disaster, further research will be necessary before seafood from the area are safe.

 The marine environment in the coastal areas of four central provinces stretching from Ha Tinh to Thua Thien-Hue is basically safe, Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Tran Hong Ha has said.

DAP-Dinh Vu fertilizer plant in Hai Phong has discharged millions of tons of waste after 7 years of operation. The waste has changed the color of the water, eroded metal and destroyed fauna and floral systems in the surrounding area.

 Establishing marine conservation areas in accordance with the national master plan on biodiversity preservation is one of the most effective ways to protect the marine environment, which is at an alarming rate of pollution. 

 Luong Duy Hanh, head of Environmental Protection and Control Department, talked to DTiNews about the possible criminal offences at Hung Hiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Limited Company in relation to the mass fish deaths.

 The Education for Nature-Vietnam (ENV) of the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations (Vusta) on August 18 transferred one Malayan bear weighing 50 kilograms to the Tam Dao Bear Rescue Centre. 

 VietNamNet Bridge - According to authorities in the Central Highlands, loggers are operating in a more organized way and are ready to fight against authorities if they are detected.

 Da Nang City’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment has sent to the police details of alleged toxic waste dumped by an environmental company at the Khanh Son dumping site.