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VN seeks capital for ecotourism development in national parks

It’s time to think about developing eco-tourism and scientific research at national parks.

Quang Nam: resorts ‘swallow’ forests, ‘block’ sea

VietNamNet Bridge - In the central province of Quang Nam, protective forests have been cleared to make room for resorts, while tourism projects have blocked the way to beaches.

Land for housing to be 200,000ha by 2020

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will have nearly two million hectares of urban area by 2020, the natural resources and environment ministry has said.

Water resources, eroding land need saving

 VietNamNet Bridge – Water management has become a major topic of discussion in recent years among Viet Nam's lawmakers, experts and society. The country has been struggling to deal with water-related issues

Beach resorts eat into forests on Phu Quoc

 VietNamNet Bridge – Investors are making a massive foray into the emerging resort island of Phu Quoc off Kien Giang Province, with more forest and agricultural land replaced by big-ticket resort projects.

“Shrimp rush” damages protective forests in central coastal provinces

 VietNamNet Bridge – The rush to breed shrimp has damaged the environment in nearly all of Vietnam’s central coastal provinces, environmentalists have warned.

Protective forests destroyed, as forest-ranger units refuse to investigate

 VietNamNet Bridge – A protective forest in Xuan Chinh Commune in Thanh Hoa province was cut down illegally over the last month, but local authorities deny they know nothing about the action.

Protective forests devastated everywhere, simultaneously

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

HCM City branches out with green space scheme

 VietNamNet Bridge – In HCM City, a million trees have been planted on an area of 600ha in all 24 districts as part of a programme to increase the green cover.