Delta park offers haven to endangered freshwater fish
Thursday, 02 July 2009
Tram Chim National Park
in the southern province of Dong Thap is home to 101 species of freshwater
fish, accounting for a quarter of the total freshwater fish species found in
the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has
announced.
Seminar: Climate change causes serious flooding in urban areas
Friday, 26 June 2009
Climate change has caused serious flooding in urban areas recently, said
scientists and experts at a two-day seminar on climate change’s impacts that
opened in Ho Chi Minh City
on June 24.
With all upstream countries – China,
Laos, Thailand and Cambodia
planning major dams on the MekongRiver, Vietnam faces imminent threats to
its ecology, food security and livelihoods of its people, an expert has warned.
Int’l seminar on the impact of climate change held in HCM City
Thursday, 25 June 2009
A two-day international seminar on the impact of climate
change opened in Ho Chi Minh City
on June 24 with more than 100 domestic and foreign delegates taking part.