November 29, 2011
Birds looking for fish at Xuan Thuy National Park in the northern province of Nam Dinh Grey skies. It had been raining for a few days and the skies were still cloudy. Grey skies are not traditionally associated with uplifting beauty, but we were gazing at a scene that rested very easy on the [...]
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August 2, 2011
Taking care of baby chickens has become a service as the chicken business in Cho Lach District in the Mekong Delta boomed Cho Lach District in the Mekong Delta’s Ben Tre Province has emerged in recent years as the premier destination for those looking to buy roosters for cockfights or chicken to raise as [...]
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April 24, 2011
A small base built by bird-nest harvesters on Hon Ngoai Island in Nha Trang. In the last two years, Nha Trang Bay in Khanh Hoa Province has been making waves for something other than its beaches, diving and seafood. Enamored of its health benefits and curious about its origins, tourists have been flocking to the [...]
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April 24, 2011
A long-beaked Ibis bird looks for food scraps from a bin at Sydney's tourist precinct, Circular Quay. It’s not yet the Bodega Bay of Alfred Hitchcock’s "The Birds", but winged creatures are increasingly becoming a concern for inhabitants of Australia’s biggest city. Large colonies of the white, long-beaked native ibis stalk the garbage bins of [...]
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January 29, 2010
The A/H5N1 virus is reportedly spreading among flocks in the central province of Ha Tinh and the southern province of Ca Mau. Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Diep Kinh Tan said every effort must be made to stop the epidemic, otherwise it would surely spread to other provinces in the Mekong Delta, especially [...]
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January 17, 2010
Disease experts in Southeast Asia will map out key poultry smuggling routes, especially along Cambodia’s long border with Thailand and Vietnam, in a move to prevent the spread of the H5N1 bird flu virus in the region. Researchers from China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam met in the Chinese city of Kunming to discuss ways [...]
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December 29, 2009
A Briton living in Vietnam indulges in his lifelong passion, birdwatching, and calls the country a birdersâ paradise. Richard Craik (L) with American tourists Robert and Nancy Dean from Florida on a recentbirding tour in Da Lat in the Central Highlands. Richard and his Vietnam Birding tour company offersbirdwatching and cultural tours in Vietnam and [...]
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December 29, 2009
A large number of adult and young wild birds in the Mekong Deltaâs Bac Lieu Province are ending up on dinner tables and uncontrolled poaching is pushing several rare species to extinction, experts warn. âThe owners of groves that are bird habitats are catching young birds to sell for food during the breeding season while [...]
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December 9, 2009
Lying within the flooded Dong Thap Muoi area in Cao Lanh District, Dong Thap Province, Gao Giong Eco-Tourism Park has become a popular destination . . . Tourists take a cruise along a canal in Gao Giong Eco-Tourism Park.The way to the park is lined by green rice fields dotted with houses and small gardens [...]
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October 3, 2009
The experts of bird protection warned that global warming had been increasingly posing a threat to the living environment of the alpine birds. A professional meeting on bird protection is currently held in Portschach, Austria, by an international organization for bird protection “Bird Life” in cooperation with the German “Ornithologists Association.” Participating experts pointed out [...]
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