Locals axe forest to plant pepper

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VietNam News English 18 hour(s) ago

A large area of protective pine forest in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai has been destroyed by local farmers to clear land for pepper and coffee plantations.

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One million trees to be planted on islands in Nha Trang Bay

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VietnamPlus English 5 day(s) ago

One million trees to be planted on islands in Nha Trang Bay

As many as 100,000 trees have been planted on Hon Noi island as part of a programme designed to protect the environment in the Nha Trang Bay.

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Mekong Delta expands area of specialty fruit trees

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VietNam News English 1 week(s) ago

The Mekong Delta has additional 20,000 hectares of specialty fruit trees than they did three years ago, according to the Southern Horticultural Research Institute.

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Vietnam succeeds in rescuing precious pine trees

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VietnamNet English 1 week(s) ago

Vietnam succeeds in rescuing precious pine trees

VietNamNet Bridge – The program on researching the biological characteristics of a pine variety - Ducampopinus kremfii – has shown initial results, while scientists have successfully grown this kind of pine tree on Bidoup Mountain in Lac Duong district of Lam Dong province.

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Efforts protect mangrove forests

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VietnamPlus English 2 week(s) ago

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has provided the central province of Thua Thien-Hue with more than 710 million VND to help the province plant more trees in its mangrove forests from 2012-2014.

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Protecting swamp cypress treasures in Vietnam

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VietnamNet English 3 week(s) ago

Protecting swamp cypress treasures in Vietnam

VietNamNet Bridge - Swamp cypress or Glyptostrobus only left in China and Vietnam, with two populations consisting of 162 trees in Vietnam’s Dak Lak province. Rare wood collectors are urgently hunting this especially rare plant, putting the protection task of this rare species in numerous challenges.

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Thousands of mangroves planted in Nha Trang

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VietNam News English 3 week(s) ago

More than 10,000 mangrove trees were planted around Nha Trang Bay in central Khanh Hoa Province on Saturday.

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Climate changes in Da Lat – the result of deforestation

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VietnamNet English 3 week(s) ago

Climate changes in Da Lat – the result of deforestation

VietNamNet Bridge – The crops have been misled, the climate has changed with out-of-season fits of cold and heat. People now pay a heavy price for their activities of destroying pine trees. Da Lat, the romantic city which was compared as a little Paris, has gradually lost its special character.

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In Da Lat, more trees felled than planted

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VietnamNet English 1 month(s) ago

In Da Lat, more trees felled than planted

VietNamNet Bridge – The rapid urbanization speed in Da Lat, the city of thousands of pine trees, plus the serious deforestation, have both put the forests in agony.

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Dak Lak develops precious trees

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VietnamPlus English 1 month(s) ago 1 related news

Water pine tree known by the scientific name Glyptostrobus pensilis will be grown on a large scale for the first time in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak as a measure to develop the precious and rare species.

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Pine forests disappear, Da Lat gets ragged

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VietnamNet English 1 month(s) ago 1 related news

Pine forests disappear, Da Lat gets ragged

VietNamNet Bridge – The pine forests in both the inner city and suburbs of the famous tourism land of Da Lat have been killed because people need land areas for their houses.

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Two thousand-year-old trees recognised as national heritage

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VietnamPlus English 1 month(s) ago

Pomu and samu trees of over 1,000 years old in the Xuan Lien Nature Reserve in central Thanh Hoa province have been recognised as the national heritage.

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Hailstorm sweeps through Hue, student injured

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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 1 month(s) ago

Hailstorm sweeps through Hue, student injured

Many houses were damaged, trees were uprooted and a student was injured in the head during a hailstorm that raged in the central city of Hue on Sunday.

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Bad urban planning blamed for compounding heatwave in Hanoi

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Báo Dân Trí English 1 month(s) ago 1 duplicate news

Bad urban planning blamed for compounding heatwave in Hanoi

Hanoi is getting hotter during the summers and experts have blamed the situation on the city's bad planning that prioritises concrete structures instead of green spaces.

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Is there a multi-billion dong aloewood treasure in Vietnam?

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VietnamNet English 1 month(s) ago

Is there a multi-billion dong aloewood treasure in Vietnam?

VietNamNet Bridge – Scientists believe that an aloewood treasure does not exist in nature. Aloewood is very rare in Vietnam, while it is easy to make counterfeit aloewood.

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