Vietnam’s response to climate change reinforce
Climate change would trigger harsher weather extremes in Vietnam in the coming time as it has in the past 50 years caused sea level in the country rising by 20 cm and average temperature up 0.5 degree Celsius. At a…
Environment law lifts green ethos
Deputy Minister for Natural Resources and Environment Bui Cach Tuyen has urged that environmental planning must be part of the country's plans for socio-economic development. Speaking at a conference earlier this month on a revision to the Law of Environmental…
Consensus – key to protect lower Mekong River
As a nation in the lower Mekong River basin, Vietnam potentially bears serious impacts from programmes and development projects deployed on the mainstream of the upper river, and therefore needs to put forward solutions to deal with different development scenarios.…
Conservation hell Vietnam pulls plug on park’s UNESCO recognition
Mekong Resources Forum II Video Report
A video report produced by the Communication Department of PanNature on the second Mekong Resources Forum organized on 10th May 2013 in Tam Dao town, Vinh Phuc, Vietnam. Mekong Resources Forum is an initiative that aims to facilitate meaningful dialogues…
Incentives key to forest protection
Like many farmers living near the Ngoc Son-Ngo Luong Nature Reserve, Bui Van Benh of the Muong ethic group used to go into the forest to collect timber when he wanted to build a new house. "We rely on the…
Yesterday mining tells on Vietnam today
Second Mekong Resources Forum opens
Another five-needle pine species discovered in Vietnam
The third among world's five-needle pine species, after Pinus dalatensis and Pinus kwangtungensis, has been recorded for Vietnam in Xuan Nha Nature Reserve, Son La province. The white pine with large cones and wingless seeds was preliminarily identified as Pinus…