Canals in Ho Chi Minh City are dying because each day they have to suffer hundreds of tons of garbage discharged from households who live along the canals, ships, fruit shops and passers-by.

Tens of hectares of the forests in Ba Vi district in Hanoi have been eliminated to give place to luxurious villas.

After receiving money from Sonadezi, the local people in Ba Cheo canal area have begun re-organizing their lives from scratch.

The footprints of poachers can be found everywhere in the Ke Go natural forest and Huong Son watershed forest in Ha Tinh, the “hot spot,” where the wildlife has been killed in masses.

Everyday, the Chinese man comes to the paddy field in the Hoa Phu commune of Chau Thanh district in Long An province, where he takes care of strange paddies.

The Dong Nai River has been playing a very important role in the development of the HCM City as the southern economic center. Therefore, when the river gets polluted, the economic center has suffered.

Breeding ornamental snakes is now in vogue, because 2013 is the year of snake. However, scientists say the breeding is not encouraged, because this is a kind of alien species.

Sea horses have been hunted everywhere in coastal provinces by people, just because they are considered the panacea for gentlemen.

After the old trees in the Yok Don National Park were chopped down by illegal lumberjacks, the young trees in the forest have also disappeared recently.

Having been blighted in the past by pollution, disease-ridden water and other health hazards, poor households in Ha Tinh are being given a new lease of life thanks to a pioneering eco-village project.

Illegal gold digging has been devastating the ecosystem, because cyanide, the toxic substance used during the digging, may poison the living environment.

 More than 1,000 m2 of the Long Hai coastal alluvial in Vung Tau city has been covered by flowers and trees, using the technology from the Middle East. This model will be replicated along the coast of Vietnam.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism has announced the Green Tourism Label standard which will be issued for accommodation facilities, restaurants, rest stops and tourist sites.

The Ba Tai Mountain in Kien Giang province, which has been highly appreciated for its biodiversity, the area where mineral exploitation is prohibited for conservation, is now in the danger of becoming the materials for making lime.

It is now a growing tendency among the youth to breed original reptiles. Meanwhile, scientists have warned that these are hazardous alien animals.

The nghien (Burretiodendron hsienmu) special-use forest in the Tat Ke – Ban Bung sanctuary in Tuyen Quang province has been “bleeding,” because illegal lumberjacks cut trees for precious woods.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of mining enterprises have been found as running away after the mining period and not fulfilling the post-mining works they committed when receiving the exploitation licenses.

Many areas in the northern provinces have become stripped bare with plants plucked to be sold to Chinese merchants who have been collecting nearly all kinds of plants in Vietnam.

Eleven projects on exploiting minerals have been licensed in Hung Thinh, a small poor commune in Tran Yen of the northern province of Yen Bai, which threatens the living environment of local people.

The Ba River is now getting depleted, because it has to “bleed itself dry” for the An Khe – Kanak hydropower plant.