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  Locals tend trees in a forest in the mountainous district of Cao Phong in Hoa Binh Province. The forest is Vietnam’s first afforestation project under the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol. With many countries looking for carbon offsets in developing...

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Adult elephants line up before starting their race, held for the first time in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak this month An old elephant waits, incomplete, in the shade of a big tamarind tree outside Yok Don National Park. The giant beast’s two tusks have been cut off by its owner to dissuade poachers from...

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David Minetti “plays” with snakes in Cat Tien National Park. From Montpellier in the south of France, David Minetti came to Vietnam in 2003 as a simple tourist, but before long he was back in HCMC to open a gym called the K1 Fitness & Fighting Factory. As the name suggests, David’s gym offers classes...

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   The green forests in the Ba Vi mountain range create a cool and romantic atmosphere, and are rich in medicinal herbs The road was narrow and winding steeply up the mountain. Sharp bends kept me gripping the motorbike, turning my knuckles white. It was getting steadily colder as I...

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Geography HCM City has an area of approximately 2,094 square kilometers. It is located from 10 10’-10 38’ North and 106o2’-106o54’ East. The city has Binh Duong Province in the north, Tay Ninh Province in the northwest, Dong Nai Province in the east and northeast, Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province in the southeast, and Long...

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Geography HCM City has an area of approximately 2,094 square kilometers. It is located from 10 10’-10 38’ North and 106o2’-106o54’ East. The city has Binh Duong Province in the north, Tay Ninh Province in the northwest, Dong Nai Province in the east and northeast, Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province in the southeast, and Long...

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Since Innov Green rolled out its forestation project, 994 families of Cam Muon commune, Nghe An province have to face many worries caused by a company about which they know little. Background: Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on March 10 instructed local governments to pause leasing forest land to foreign investors until the Ministry of Agriculture...

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Investigating the lease of forest lands to foreign developers of tree plantations, VietNamNet reporters travelled also to Lang Son province on the border with China. Lanh Van Nga pointed to the 60ha forest where InnovGreen plants eclyptus. Nga said he would not give his forest land to this company, but keep it to his children.  Background:...

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To better understand the growing controversy over leasing forest lands to foreign developers of tree plantations, VietNamNet reporters travelled to Quang Ninh province. “We collect bamboo from the natural forest to weave baskets and collect reeds to dry for brooms. Now foreigners come. If they lease all the forest land here to grow eucalyptus,...

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In mid-February, retired Lieutenant General Dong Sy Nguyen expressed concern over the long-term leasing of watershed forests to foreigners in certain provinces to a VietNamNet reporter.  On March 9, just a few weeks after retired Lieutenant General Dong Sy Nguyen talked with VietNamNet, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung declared a freeze...

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