The People’s Committee of northern Bắc Giang Province’s Lục Nam District said it would suspend the operation of an illegal inland waterway port built by a local enterprise to avoid over-exploitation of land.

 Illegal logging is threatening the protected forest of Sông Tranh in the central province of Quảng Nam’s Bắc Trà My District, with hundred-year-old trees being felled, Nhân Dân online newspaper reported. 

 Long-standing violations in the use and management of Soc Son District’s protection forest land have been blamed on the lax management of local authorities.

 A group of Canadian visitors have called on people to gather litter on a beach in Binh Dinh Province’s Quy Nhon City.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a project on protecting, restoring and sustainably developing forests in the Tay Nguyen Central Highlands during 2016-2030.

 The management board of the Phu My Habitat Reserve in Phu My commune, Giang Thanh district of Kien Giang province yesterday afternoon said that a large number of red-headed cranes have migrated to the Phu My grassland for living in the recent days. 

 The people in Hai Duong Province's Cam Giang District are expressing concerns over pollution problems after local authorities approved a waste-to-electricity project in the area.

 Vice Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen The Hung called on German investors to join the capital city’s projects on drainage, wastewater treatment and improvement of the local environment at a forum on March 19.

 Con Dao National Park in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau has been working hard to conserve sea turtles for years, becoming an ideal nesting destination for the rare species in Vietnam.

 Hanoi ranked second and HCMC 15th among the worst cities for air pollution in Southeast Asia, Thanh Nien newspaper reported, citing a recent report by the nongovernmental environmental organization GreenPeace.

 Prolonged heat waves without rains have left 58,000 hectares of special-use and protective forests in the southern province of Tay Ninh at high risk of catching fires.

 The 2018 report on global air quality released by AirVisual and Greenpeace Southeast Asia assessing Hanoi as the second most polluted city in Southeast Asia is partial and inaccurate.

 A young man in the central city of Da Nang and his cousin have joined the global Challenge for Change movement to collect litter at Son Tra Peninsular.

 Dozens of false ebony trees have been destroyed in the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Forest only a kilometre away from Con Roang border guard station.

 More than sixty six large trees of rare species were found to have been illegally cut down in the core of a protected forest area in the central province of Quang Bình.

 The management board of Con Dao National Park has just released around 81,137 baby sea turtles to the natural environment.

 The risk of forest fires in Dong Nai has reached the fifth and highest level since there has been no rain for a long time and the weather is hot and dry, according to the province’s Forest Protection Sub-department.

 Hanoi stood second in Southeast Asia in terms of air pollution just behind Jakarta, according to a 2018 World Air Quality Report jointly conducted by Greenpeace and IQAir AirVisual.

 Three black bears kept in Bien Hoa city of the southern province of Dong Nai were handed over to a wildlife conservation centre on March 12. 

 Developing renewable energy is one of the priorities of Vietnam to gradually reduce the dependence on traditional forms of power generation in order to protect the environment.