During a tour to Ba Bo Canal yesterday Chairman of People’s Committee in HCM City Nguyen Thanh Phong asked the relevant agencies must make more efforts to reduce pollution in Ba Bo Canal.

 The one-horn Java rhino whose scientific name was Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus, was shot dead at the national park in 2010.

 Some 40 black shanked douc langurs (Pygathrix nigripes), divided into three herds, have been found living on Chua Chan Mountain in southern Dong Nai Province’s Xuan Loc District.

With the monsoon approaching, the condition of hundreds of reservoirs in the central provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh and Quang Tri has increased concerns of possible danger.

The Electricity of Vietnam Group’s Power Generation Corporation 3 is submitting an application for a licence to dump waste mud into the sea off the coast of Binh Thuan province, a company official has said.

 Tens of black-shanked douc langurs (Pygathrix nigripes), an endangered species, have been spotted in Chua Chan mountain in Suoi Cat commune of Xuan Loc district, the southern province of Dong Nai.

Vietnam’s new forest areas rose by 4.5% year-on-year to 90,700 hectares in the first six months of 2017 thanks to favourable weather conditions, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Vietnam’s Bach Ma National Park in Thua Thien Hue province has been selected for the construction of the world’s first saola breeding centre, which is scheduled to be inaugurated in late 2017 or early 2018.

 The popular tourism destination of Phu Quoc Island is facing increasing environmental pollution.

 Compensation for residents affected by last year’s marine environmental incident in the four central provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue has been mostly completed.

Coal-fired power plants remain prioritized in the context when Vietnam has a vital need for an increasing amount of power for national development. However, coal-fired power plants pose high risk of environmental pollution.

 Huong Khe Town in the central province of Ha Tinh has been covered in rubbish and a foul smell as their only dumping site is overloaded.

 Sixty eight animals from eight wild species have been rescued and released into the Bai Tu Long National Park in Van Don district, northern Quang Ninh province on July 6. 

 Hon Hai, a tiny uninhabited island off the south central province of Binh Thuan, attracts thousands of birds every summer.

 Vietnam’s new forest areas rose 4.5 percent year-on-year to 90,700 hectares in the first six months of the year thanks to favourable weather condition, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

 Hanoi authorities are planning to clean several polluted rivers and improve their surroundings.

 Mud and red soil from a controversial tourism resort project in Danang City’s Son Tra District has polluted the local beach.

 Site support groups (SSGs) have been set up in Vietnam by BirdLife International since 2002, proving effective in conserving important bird areas (IBAs) of the country.

 Authorities in Central Highlands province of Dak Nong have asked the Dak Nong Aluminum Company to ensure that aluminum powder is not released into the environment.

 Many people in Quang Tri Province are still destroying the forest to create short-term agricultural land despite a prime ministerial order to close all forests in the area last year.