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The World Wildlife Fund and wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC is teaching students about the illegal wildlife trade at 12 junior high schools in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue. VnnNews - The World Wildlife Fund and wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC is teaching students about the illegal wildlife trade at 12 junior high...

VnnNews - A Vietnamese delegation led by Minister of Science and Technology Hoang Van Phong attended the International Conference on Access to Civil Nuclear Energy in Paris on March 8-9.Nation mulls plan to build nuclear power plants< />Vietnam may have nuclear power by 2020National Assembly deputies approve nuclear power projectInitiated by...

VnnNews - Eran Katz, who holds the Guiness world record title in memory stunts, will meet with Vietnamese readers next week. Leading int’l memory trainer to visit Vietnam‘Super Memory’ praises Vietnamese students Katz is a leading speaker on memory and intelligence as well as a popular guest on TV and radio shows....

Hundreds of households in Huong Dien and Huong Quang communes in the central province of Ha Tinh have raised their concerns over wild elephants . . . “The wild elephants usually appear at the midnight. They have crushed motorbikes, pulled up electricity pylons, damaged crops and even threatened people’s safety,” said chairman...

The Asian Tortoise Preservation program is conducting research of tortoises in Dong Mo Lake. These animals belong to the same species as the legendary tortoise of Hoan Kiem Lake.  In recent weeks, the old tortoise has risen to the surface very frequently. It was treated as good news at the beginning, but now scientists worry about his...

Up to 92 countries have registered to participate in Earth Hour 2010, a new record compared to 88 countries last year. Vietnam has 18 provinces and cities prepared to join the event. Young people joined the Earth Hour 2009 in Hanoi. The organizing board said that this year, the light at Tokyo Tower in Japan and the Brandenburg Gate in...

VnnNews - An extremely endangered species of orchird, Paphiopedilum appletonianum, has been discovered on Voi Mep Mountain, reports a local official.  Le Van Quy, Vice-Chief of Quang Tri Provincial Forest Protection Department explained that a group of departmental researchers saw this rare orchird during a field trip. This species of...

Many foreign TV channels and magazines are arriving in Quang Binh to survey and shoot documentaries about Son Doong cave and the biodiversity of Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park. Son Doong - the world’s largest cave. From March 6-26, British ITV Studio will make a TV documentary about Son Doong cave and biodiversity in Phong...

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked ministries, branches and localities to take drastic measures to prevent forest fires. A part of Hoang Lien National Park is fired on February 10A PM dispatch to ministries, branches and localities on March 5 said the prolonged dry spell has impacted many localities, especially the northern mountain,...

All aspects of Vietnam’s natural resources will be commercialised to further enrich the country’s budget. A mining site in Quy Hop district, Nghe An province.“Vietnam’s economic growth has greatly benefited the whole of society. But, it has also deteriorated the environment and degraded the natural resources. This has...