Protecting pangolins from the wildlife trade is a difficult task.

 Authorities in the southern province of Cà Mau do not agree that Cà Mau City’s garbage treatment plant should extend its shutdown to conduct repairs.

 Humanity and the way we feed, fuel and finance our societies and economies is pushing nature and the services that power and sustain us to the brink, according to the WWF’s 2018 Living Planet Report.

 Tri Nguyen Island in Nha Trang Bay is being littered with rubbish from households and boats.

 The expenditure for environmental protection amounted to VND72.42 trillion in 2013-2018, or VND14.5 trillion annually. 

 The HCMC Department of Transport will devise a scheme to control emissions from motorbikes if the municipal government gives the agency the green light, reported Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper.

The Vietnam National University, Hanoi and the Korean Foundation for Advanced Studies will co-organise the Hanoi Forum 2018 from November 8-11 in a bid to seek more measures to respond to climate change and boost sustainable development.

 Hanoi Urban Environment Company in Xuan Son Commune (Urenco 6) has been caught discharging untreated waste water into the environment in Ba Vi District, Hanoi.

 The southern province of Binh Duong has become the first and only one in Vietnam to be named a Smart21 community for 2019 by the New York-based Intelligent Community Forum (ICF).

 Lawmakers have decided to raise the environmental tax on a number of commodities from January 1, 2019.

 The Ministry of Finance has asked the Ministry of Transport not to grant business licences to shipping lines that transport scrap that includes waste and pollutants to Viet Nam.

 Nha Trang Bay is facing serious pollution caused by a drain from a surrounding residential area.

 While wastewater is threatening the environment in Hanoi, a wastewater treatment facility has been abandoned for a decade in Thanh Tri District.

 Vietnam is forecast to collect approximately 2.5 trillion VND (106.4 million USD) from payments of forest environmental services in 2018, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Ha Cong Tuan has said.

 A range of decades-old trees in a forest managed by the two central provinces of Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue have been illegally logged. 

 The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and development partners launched the project “For a World Without Waste” in Hanoi on October 17. 

 The government of the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on October 13 held a conference to gather opinions on a zoning plan to construct the Bach Ma ecological resort complex, coupled with two cable-car systems on the Bach Ma Range.

Japan’s Nikken Sekkei Civil Engineering Ltd. (NSC) won the first prize at an international contest for the planning design with a scale of 1/5000 in Can Gio district.

 The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment launched a campaign on October 12, calling for joint efforts in plastic waste prevention nationwide, in response to the 2018 “Make the world cleaner” campaign.

 A group of young people from Hanoi have been travelling around the country, exchanging books for plastic waste to make eco-bricks, as they want to join the global efforts to reduce plastic waste.