Every year in September, at the paddy fields between Dien Kim and Dien Hai wards in Dien Chau District, Nghe An Province, the so-called "swallow hunting fever" begins.

Tram Chim National Park in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap has been a habitat for red-crowned cranes, an endangered bird species listed in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Red List of Threatened Species.

The People’s Committee of Cao Bang province on September 30 held a ceremony to launch a culture, sports, and tourism week and receive a certificate re-verifying Non Nuoc Cao Bang a UNESCO-recognised Global Geopark.

The islands, including eight islets with a total of 2,400 inhabitants, are the first location in VN to successfully promote the non-use of plastic bags and the ‘3Rs’ (reduce, reuse and recycle) programmes.

Vietnam now has over 300 projects meeting green construction standards with a total floor area of around 7.2 million square meters, said Deputy Minister of Construction Nguyen Tuong Van.

With 35-55 million cubic meters of sand extracted each year, the Mekong Delta’s sand reserves could be completely depleted before 2035, according to research from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Vietnam.

The initiative also seeks to define the terms for breeding and keeping tigers for conservation purposes and to ensure proper care and welfare standards for tigers in captivity.

This region annually receives floodwater from the Mekong River during the rainy season to maintain the seasonal inundation (rotating wet-dry seasons) of a natural wetland.

Whales have visited Cô Tô District’s beach in Quảng Ninh Province in the last few days.

Vietnam has received 41.2 million USD, equivalent to 80% of the total funding, from the World Bank for 10.3 million tonnes of CO2 as a result of its efforts to reduce carbon emissions in deforestation and forest degradation until 2025.

A contest on plastic waste management applications in the tourism sector was launched on September 28, according to the Vietnam Tourism Association.

The Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 summit was established in 2017 based on an initiative by the Danish government, formerly known as the Global Green Growth Forum (3GF).

The first destinations on the journey “Action for a Green Vietnam” of Unilever Vietnam and OMO brand, are witnessing constant changes in the landscape, environment, and people's awareness.

While multiple campaigns and regulations have raised awareness of waste sorting across VN for more than a decade, misconceptions are still one of the biggest challenges for effective waste treatment and recycling.

The hills in Soc Son District and Ba Vi District (Hanoi) are turning messier these days due to forest land and agricultural land encroachment to build resorts, homestays for personal profit.

There are about 60,000 tonnes of waste disposed of each day in Vietnam, only 15 percent of which is collected, recycled, or reused.

The People’s Committee of the northern province of Nam Dinh has agreed to Xuan Thuy National Park preparing a dossier to submit to the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity for approval as ASEAN Heritage Park.

It is common to see monkeys seeking food at a dumping site behind Linh Ung Pagoda. The habit has been formed as they are often given food by tourists, and they rush to the pagoda for food.

VN is advised to promote the carbon credit market in the refrigeration and air-conditioning sector as one way to protect the ozone layer.

Tourists to Co To island district of Quang Ninh province will be banned from bringing plastic bags and single-use plastic products to its islands from September 15.