December 30, 2011
Two bullets were found in the body of a male elephant found dead last week in the southern province of Dong Na, Vietnam News Agency reported Wednesday. One bullet was lodged in the animal’s head, while the other was in its front leg, according to an announcement made by the provincial police division and forest rangers’ agency Tuesday. The [...]
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December 29, 2011
Two bullets were found in the body of a male elephant found dead last week in the southern province of Dong Na, Vietnam News Agency reported Wednesday. One bullet was lodged in the animal’s head, while the other was in its front leg, according to an announcement made by the provincial police division and forest rangers’ agency Tuesday. The [...]
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December 19, 2011
Le Van Thuong, head of the family that owns the garden with five newly anointed National Heritage trees, poses in front of the hollowed trunks of one of them He was offered US$300,000 and more for his garden with old trees, but the owner was not tempted. Le Van Thuong is now the owner [...]
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November 21, 2011
Pu Mat National Park and the Pu Huong and Pu Hoat nature reserves are the core zones of the UNESCO-recognized Western Nghe An Biosphere Reserve, at 1.3 million hectares the largest such reserve in Southeast Asia. The park, whose name means high slope in the language of the Thai tribe, is located in the [...]
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November 7, 2011
Forest rangers in the central province of Quy Nhon on November 2 said they are treating an endangered, injured gray-shanked douc langur (Pygathrix cinerea) monkey, which was kept by a local. According to Tran Duy An, chief of the Forest Ranger Division in Tuy Phuoc District, the local whose identity was not revealed bought the douc in the nearby [...]
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October 29, 2011
 A corner of Lake Nui Mot Nui Mot was a small lake nestling in a valley of the An Truong Mountains until the late 1970s, when a dam was built downstream to create a 1,200-hectare irrigation reservoir that snakes its way back through the high country. Still called Nui Mot, the largest and prettiest [...]
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October 8, 2011
Near the top of Mai Falls Belying their humble name, which means apricot, Mai Falls on the La Nga River are among the scenic highlights of Dong Nai Province in Vietnam’s south. The first sight of Mai Falls is catch-your-breath stuff as the water cascading down the giant rocks to form a steep liquid [...]
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July 31, 2011
A man who led a group of five illegal loggers in kidnapping forest rangers in the northern province of Quang Binh turned himself in Friday, Vietnam News Agency reported. Â Four other members of the gang, all younger brothers of ring leader Tran Xuan Lanh, are still at large, according to the news website. [...]
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July 19, 2011
The male gaur (Bos gaurus) grazes with a cow near a village of the Raglay ethnic people in Ninh Thuan Province’s Phuoc Binh National Park. A large gaur grazing near a residential area alongside domestic cows in Ninh Thuan Province offers a unique opportunity for extensive research and better conservation of the endangered species, [...]
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July 12, 2011
Da Nang authorities worked round the clock to put out a blaze that claimed 20 hectares of protected pine trees.  The fire started in Nam Hai Van forest on Thursday afternoon. Firefighters spent the whole night battling the flames until it was extinguished, early the following morning, according to a Tuoi Tre report published on Friday.  Huynh Van Thang, deputy director [...]
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