Vietnam officially joins WWF’s Earth Hour 2010
On 4 February, Vietnam celebrated the national launch of WWF’s Earth Hour 2010, the local campaign of the world’s largest awareness movement on climate change.
Tigers in the Greater Mekong
The forests of the Greater Mekong region represent the largest combined tiger habitat on our planet. Covering 540,000km2, or roughly the size of France, these forest habitats are priority areas for tiger conservation efforts. Yet it is estimated that as few as 350 Indochinese tigers prowl the forests of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, down from around 1,200 during the last Year of the Tiger in 1998.
Disappearing Greater Mekong tigers underscore global threats
Tiger numbers have fallen by more than 70 percent in slightly more than a decade in the Greater Mekong, with the region’s five countries containing only 350 tigers, according to a new WWF report.
Disappearing Greater Mekong tigers underscore global threats
Tiger numbers have fallen by more than 70 percent in slightly more than a decade in the Greater Mekong, with the region’s five countries containing only 350 tigers, according to a new WWF report.
BOO and WWF launch Earth Hour T-shirt competition
Fisheries Bycatch Reduction Program Catches On
A ground-breaking programme to reduce marine turtle and other bycatch among
Hanoi school kids are voting earth to save the planet
Children from Hanoi have cast their ‘vote’ on climate change – joining young people from around the world by making paper lanterns that symbolize their wishes to save the planet from global warming.
Dogs to sniff out the state of Vietnam's critically endangered rhinos
Highly trained detection dogs are being used help to determine the population status of the Javan rhino in Vietnam, in an attempt to save one of the world’s rarest mammals from extinction.
WWF sends brigade of volunteers to fight climate change and publishes report about the Mega-Stress to be felt by Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam- WWF has launched a new climate change awareness campaign and a new report on the effects of climate change in Southeast Asia to send a message to world leaders meeting at the critical United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December.
Famed clam fishery first to receive MSC certification in Southeast Asia
The Ben Tre clam fishery in Vietnam has received Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification, becoming the first fishery in Southeast Asia to meet the organization’s sustainability and management standards.
