VietNamNet Bridge - While rivers have been dying day after day due to pollution, policymakers are still busy discussing how to control pollution.

VietNamNet Bridge - More than 20 hectares of protective forests around the Da Mi hydropower reservoir in Binh Thuan province have been cleared in just the last two months. Meanwhile, agencies have blamed each other.

VietNamNet Bridge - Unable to see benefits from their jobs, people have returned to the state forested areas that were given to them to protect. 

VietNamNet Bridge - “Vietnam is running out of rare and precious wood,” Nguyen Ton Quyen, deputy chair and secretary general of the Vietnam Timber and Forest Products Association (Viforest), said recently.

VietNamNet Bridge - The protective forests in the southern province of Tra Vinh which died because of insects’ attack, sea wave hit and deforestation have been revived. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Deforestation is on the rise in the Central Highland province of Dak Nong's Dak Song District.

VietNamNet Bridge - Pine trees in Gia Lai Province are pierced with holes so they will die slowly. Then the trees are cut down to clear land for growing pepper and lemon.

VietNamNet Bridge - The northern province of Dien Bien has lost 22,000 hectares of forests. Dien Bien residents say they are tired of fighting the battle against deforestation caused by migrants.

VietNamNet Bridge - Forests are in big danger as local people don’t want to continue protecting them as they see no benefits from doing so. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The struggle to protect Chu Yang Sin National Park and Chu Yang Sin Mount at the height of 2,442 meters above sea water is getting more difficult. The park is home to 876 plants, 203 birds and 46 mammal species. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Ten cases of forest devastation and arson were discovered in 2014 and the first six months of 2015 in the central city of Da Nang. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Intense deforestation has been occurring across the Central Highlands over the last 10 years. Tens of hectares of forestland have been cleared every year.

VietNamNet Bridge - Hundreds of precious perfumed trees (Pterocarpus macrocarpus) in Chu Mom Ray National Park have been felled. Local authorities knew nothing about the incidents until they were informed by media.

VietNamNet Bridge - Old forests continue to “bleed” because of the rich’s hobby of collecting wooden furniture items.

VietNamNet Bridge - The natural forests in Huong Lam and Huong Xuan Communes of Huong Khe District in the central province of Ha Tinh have been seriously devastated, turned into bare hills just within one month.

VietNamNet Bridge - Hundreds of hectares of forest around Gia Nghia Town in Dak Nong province have been devastated just within several months of 2015, while the forest has been illegally occupied and traded.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A recent survey revealed that the total forest area of five provinces in the Central Highland region, has dropped by nearly 360,000 hectares (ha), compared with a previous survey in 2008.

The 7,100-hectare Khe Ro primeval forest in Bac Giang province’s Tay Yen Tu Natural Sanctuary is becoming bare in areas as its ancient trees have been chopped down by illegal loggers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The destruction of forests remains a major problem for Viet Nam, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Ha Cong Tuan tells Viet Nam Economics Times.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Illegal herb exploitation has gradually eliminated forests in the central region, including national parks and sanctuaries.