Features
Hydropower Trend in Vietnam: The Less Mentioned Social and Environmental Side-Effects
Vietnam has good potentials for hydropower development with the watershed system consisting of more than 2,000 rivers and streams. In theory, hydropower can supply about 308 billion Kwh of electricity. Vietnam’s technical hydropower reserve of plants over 10 MW is 72 billion Kwh. There are about 360 sites suitable for installing hydropower plants with total capacity of 17.500MW1. This does not include other hydropower plants of smaller sizes.
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News - Events
Notice: PanNature’s office phone number changed
As of 19 October 2008, the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) has changed all fixed phone number in Ho ...
In-house News: Farewell and Welcome
PanNature has recently bidden farewell to Nguyen Danh Tinh, who decided to take new challenges with Care International in Vietnam. ...
Launching of the Publication “Field Guide to the Large Mammals of Vietnam”
Hanoi. July 9th, 2008 – In Hanoi Press Club, People and Nature Reconciliation has launched the publication “Field Guide to ...
Ha Noi Youth Pedal for Environmental Protection
Every Sunday at 7.30am, volunteers for PYNet, which stands for Network Promoting Youth to Act for Community and Develop-ment, gather ...
Activities
Facilitating Development of Local Environmental Protection Action Plans In August and September 2008, PanNature conducted field surveys and organized environmental protection planning workshops in Bac Me and Hoang Su Phi districts of Ha Giang province within the framework of the Chia Se Project (Vietnam - Sweden Poverty Reduction Program, managed by the Ministry of Investment and Planning).
Research - Discussions
Literature Review: Community-based Water Resource Management in Vietnam This report reviews current literature by local and international researchers on communitybased water management in Vietnam available in both Vietnamese and English. Due to limited access to all sources of information in a short period of time, we have not covered all aspects of this issue. The key findings in this report sum up the major research work that our team has carried out.
Resources
Sarus Crane – Symbol of Peace This is the first book to be published on the Eastern Sarus Crane Grus antigone sharpii. The book is published by PanNature and a professional photographer Minh Loc. The book presents over 300 wonderful colored photographs photographs taken by Minh Loc.
Current Projects
Awareness Assessment of Coastal Zone Management and General Environmental Issues in Soc Trang PanNature is working with the GTZ project to assess level of awareness and understanding of sustainable coastal zone management and general environmental issues of different stakeholders of the project. In addition to carrying out field assessment in three districts of Soc Trang province, PanNature also train staff of the district project teams on assessment techniques and data analysis skills.
