Ecosystem-based solutions are vitally important for the Mekong Delta to adapt to climate change in the decades to come, speakers said at a seminar held in Can Tho over the weekend.

 Many restaurants in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai are serving wild animals, but local authorities say it's hard to deal with the problem.

 Some 30 kilometres of beach in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue has suffered from serious erosion.

 Vietnam has called on countries around the world to raise the spirit of cooperation and harmonise their own interests with international concerns in coping with climate change.

 Vietnam remains fully committed to international actions to fight climate change, said Pham Van Tan, Deputy Director of the Meteorology, Hydrology and Climate Change under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

 The authorities in Quang Nam Province are going to spend VND100bn (US$4.3m) on a project to protect the endangered gray-shanked douc langur.

 My Khe Beach in Danang City’s Ngu Hanh Son District has been covered with waste following torrential rains over recent days.

 A female sun bear was rescued yesterday after 15 years in captivity in a border district of Tay Ninh Province in southeast Vietnam.

 Son Tra Island and some other beaches in Danang City have continued to face serious erosions and landslides after the heavy rains over the past few days.

 The central province of Ha Tinh has submitted an urgent plan to protect the elephant for the 2019-2025 period to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on December 9.

 The southernmost province of Ca Mau is facing coastal erosion which has worsened over recent years.

 Phuong Bac Infrastructure Company proposed November 8 to transform the heavily-polluted To Lich River in Hanoi. 

 A roundtable on climate change and security was held in The Hague of the Netherlands on December 4 to exchange information and assess models, measures and experience in ensuring environmental security and climate change response.

 Geological and mining experts recently debated the feasibility and economic and social impacts of the exploitation of the Red River Delta coal basin, which has estimated reserves a hundred billion tonnes of coal.

 The coastal area of Son Tra Peninsular in the central city of Danang’s ecosystem has faced a serious degradation over the past decade due to human activity.

 The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang has coordinated with Thailand to place artificial reefs in waters around Phu Quoc island to restore, preserve, and develop local fisheries resources.

 A new study has provided the first detailed information about the Annamite striped rabbit (Nesolagus timminsi) – a little-known lagomorph not discovered until 1995.

 The Greater Mekong Subregion biodiversity conservation corridors and project management plans will be put into operation from 2019, said Vice Director of the Vietnam National Administration of Environment Nguyen The Dong.

The Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association and the World Wildlife Fund launched a water risk report for Vietnam’s textile and garment industry and a tool for assessing water risks in the Mekong region in HCMC on November 28. 

 Leaders from 25 business associations in central provinces have pledged to combat illegal wildlife consumption by adopting new programmes to shed light on wildlife crime and the myths about consumption that are driving the trade in Vietnam.