The quality of the marine environment in the central region becomes stable, meeting safety requirements for aquaculture, tourism and conservation of aquatic animals and plants.

 Major challenges facing the Mekong Delta remain climate change and natural disasters, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Dang Huy Dong told a conference in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on July 14. 

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment's representative explained to Binh Thuan deputies about the Ministry’s decision to grant a licence to discharge nearly 1 million cu.m of mud into the sea of Binh Thuan.

The Ministry of Environment has asked the People’s Committees of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue to maintain strict supervision on waste discharges from the Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh.

 Ho Chi Minh City authorities have agreed to build a large-scale project on producing electricity from waste, aiming to cut the volume of buried waste by 50 percent by 2020. 

The Empire Group and ViDe Bridge Limited Company of Vietnam will implement a project producing electricity from urban solid waste using advanced technology in the central city of Da Nang.

 During a tour to Ba Bo Canal yesterday Chairman of People’s Committee in HCM City Nguyen Thanh Phong asked the relevant agencies must make more efforts to reduce pollution in Ba Bo Canal.

 The one-horn Java rhino whose scientific name was Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus, was shot dead at the national park in 2010.

 Some 40 black shanked douc langurs (Pygathrix nigripes), divided into three herds, have been found living on Chua Chan Mountain in southern Dong Nai Province’s Xuan Loc District.

With the monsoon approaching, the condition of hundreds of reservoirs in the central provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh and Quang Tri has increased concerns of possible danger.

The Electricity of Vietnam Group’s Power Generation Corporation 3 is submitting an application for a licence to dump waste mud into the sea off the coast of Binh Thuan province, a company official has said.

 Tens of black-shanked douc langurs (Pygathrix nigripes), an endangered species, have been spotted in Chua Chan mountain in Suoi Cat commune of Xuan Loc district, the southern province of Dong Nai.

Vietnam’s new forest areas rose by 4.5% year-on-year to 90,700 hectares in the first six months of 2017 thanks to favourable weather conditions, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Vietnam’s Bach Ma National Park in Thua Thien Hue province has been selected for the construction of the world’s first saola breeding centre, which is scheduled to be inaugurated in late 2017 or early 2018.

 The popular tourism destination of Phu Quoc Island is facing increasing environmental pollution.

 Compensation for residents affected by last year’s marine environmental incident in the four central provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue has been mostly completed.

Hanoi’s Industry and Trade Department has proposed to build automatic car wash systems at 67 filling stations as a measure to curb air pollution in the city. 

Coal-fired power plants remain prioritized in the context when Vietnam has a vital need for an increasing amount of power for national development. However, coal-fired power plants pose high risk of environmental pollution.

 Huong Khe Town in the central province of Ha Tinh has been covered in rubbish and a foul smell as their only dumping site is overloaded.

 Sixty eight animals from eight wild species have been rescued and released into the Bai Tu Long National Park in Van Don district, northern Quang Ninh province on July 6.