Forests in the districts of Son Ha, Tay Tra and Son Tay in the central province of Quang Ngai are being cut down to sell unripe Sterculia lychnophora beans, which locals call “uoi”, to sell to Chinese businesspeople.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The people of Ea Bar Commune in the Buon Don District of the central province of Dak Lak are very busy these days: they chop down trees and collect the lumber to make charcoal for sale.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Central Highlands, the largest forest area in Vietnam with 2.84 million hectares of forests, has never seen such a serious deforestation before. Over 130,000 hectares have been cleared just in the last five years.

There is a green vast century-old ironwood forest covering hundreds of hectares of land in Yen Thanh district of the central province of Nghe An, the locality which has been well known for deforestation and forest fires.

VietNamNet Bridge – Cuc Phuong National Park, the first national park in the country, is a relaxing place for tourists to enjoy a few days exploring tropical rainforest and a wonderful place to escape to and provides the perfect backdrop

 VietNamNet Bridge – The great efforts by the Quang Nam authorities to stop the illegal gold mining have just brought modest effects. More gold diggers have died, while the environment has got seriously polluted.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dak Lak people feel both worried and glad when seeing wild elephants in the areas near residential quarters. This means that the wild elephant populations there have been growing well.

While people throughout the country complain that their local forests are “bleeding”, the people in the central province of Quang Nam can take pride of the hundreds-of-years old forest compared as their “amulet.”

Authorities have temporarily taken into custody nearly 100 people suspected of using drugs at Feeling Bar in Au Co Road, Tan Binh District, HCM City, early yesterday morning.

 VietNamNet Bridge – No ministry or branch has claimed the responsibility for the empty forest development fund.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Taking away thousands of hectares of forests, hydropower plant developers have not paid the environment service fees and re-planted the forests.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Forest Protection Department of the central province of Quang Nam have started the program to rehabilitate forest in the Truong Son range in the border area of Laos and Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The protective forests throughout the country are bleeding. There are many reasons that induce businesses and people devastate the forests.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Lao Cai provincial authorities have decided to eliminate the wood processing workshops in the forests, or near the forests, in an effort to protect the local forests from illegal lumberjacks.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The land grabbing has become more and more serious in mountainous areas. Local people, who suffer from hunger, try to clear forests and go get land for cultivation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Scientists have urged the local management agencies and population communities to take actions to conserve the ecosystem of the dipterocarp forests, which only exist in South East Asia.

Typhoon Nari swept across the Philippines’ Luzon Island on October 12, entering the East Sea, the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting reported.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dak Lak provincial authorities have allocated tens of thousands of hectares of forest land to private companies to grow rubber. The elephants’ house, therefore, has been devastated.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of people have been in a state of anxious suspense as an afforestation yard sprayed herbicide in big quantities to treat the vegetation cover before the afforestation.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Mr. Ho Minh Lam, the nephew of forest man Ho Van Thanh, burned down the hut of Thanh and his son in the jungle.