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.
Green Office “cool” at the British Embassy
The number of “Green Offices” in Vietnam has grown with the British Embassy in Hanoi, the British Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City and the Department for International Development Vietnam (DFID Vietnam) becoming the newest members of WWF Vietnam’s Green Office programme.
Climate change in the Mekong
Hanoi, 24 October 2009- Today, International Climate Action Day unites the world in the fight against climate change, an issue of grave importance to Vietnam as the region is already strongly affected by climate change. A lack of immediate action on climate change will come at great cost to the region, states a new WWF report on climate change.
The Greater Mekong & Climate Change Report
The Greater Mekong region is already strongly affected by climate change and a lack of immediate action will come at great cost to the region, states a new WWF report released during the UN climate change talks in Bangkok.
First rattan association of Cambodia, a step to sustainable rattan industry
Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Eleven rattan small and medium enterprise owners and other community rattan processors from Phnom Penh and provinces meet on September 28th to officially form Cambodia’s first rattan association. The agenda will focus on election of a management committee and discussion over conditions and roles of current and future memberships.
Close Encounters: new species discoveries in the Greater Mekong
New species discovered in the Greater Mekong at risk of extinction due to climate change.
Feedback on Draft Standards for Pangasius Aquaculture was Focus of 4th Dialogue Meeting
Greater Mekong Climate Change Adaptation agreement: a world’s first in the making…
Asia’s first climate change adaptation agreement was the focus of a recent meeting held in Bangkok, convened on July 22 by WWF Greater Mekong Programme, the United Nations Environment Programme and the Swedish Environmental Secretariat for Asia.
Tiger parts found in Vietnam taxi
Hanoi’s Environmental Police on Thursday found a frozen tiger and more than 11 kgs of tiger bones smuggled by taxi from the country’s interior to Hanoi – the third seizure of tiger parts in the city this year.
Toothless laws encourage rising demand for pangolin
Rising demand for pangolins, mostly from mainland China, compounded by lax laws is wiping out the unique toothless anteaters from their native habitats in Southeast Asia, according to a group of leading pangolin experts.