Pine forests disappear, Da Lat gets ragged 21/05/2013, 01:55:47 PM (VietNamNet Bridge)-The pine forests in both the inner city and suburbs of the famous tourism land of Da Lat have been killed because people need land areas for their houses.

Forests turn bare, exhausted 18/05/2013, 06:57:58 AM (VietNamNet Bridge)-The poor forests should be improved by the afforestation instead of letting them get destroyed for economic projects.

Forests devastated because men want to be red blooded 10/05/2013, 05:50:48 PM (VietNamNet Bridge)-Sam dat as Vietnamese call, or Siipunculus, like earthworms, can make soil porous, thus helping plants grow rapidly. When sam dat are killed, planted and re-generated forests would be damaged, because trees cannot absorb nutrients and water to grow.

Vietnam will be the country with no forest? 09/05/2013, 09:07:51 AM (VietNamNet Bridge)-The deforestation has not been stopped as promised by local authorities and forest ranger units. Vietnam’s forest coverage has dropped to less than 40 percent.

Protecting forests still uphill battle 07/05/2013, 09:21:30 PM (VietNamNet Bridge)-More than 450 instances of illegal deforestation were discovered in the first three months of this year, according to the Viet Nam Administration of Forestry.

Forests of the Mekong in sharp decline 05/05/2013, 06:40:31 PM (VietNamNet Bridge)-Demand for farmland may strip the Greater Mekong region of a third of its remaining forest cover over the next two decades without swift government action, a leading conservation group warned on Thursday, May 2.

Deforestation decrease in first three months 01/05/2013, 07:26:40 AM (VietNamNet Bridge)-More than 450 instances of illegal deforestation were discovered in the first three months of this year, according to the Vietnam Administration of Forestry.

Vietnam promotes gender equality in forest protection 25/04/2013, 01:41:31 AM (VNA)-A symposium on gender and forestry issues took place on April 23 in Hanoi to discuss ways to promote gender equality in forest protection.

Hydropower plants destroy vast forest area 11/04/2013, 10:44:58 AM (VietNamNet Bridge)-Over 20,000 hectares of forest had been chopped down for several purposes, mostly for development of hydropower plants, but only around 700 hectares had been replanted as of the end of 2012.

Destroying forest to seek rare herbs 06/04/2013, 06:52:32 PM (VietNamNet Bridge)-The Central Highlands is favored with various varieties of rare herbs. However, the resources of herbs in this region are getting exhaust when thousands of people are flocking into the jungle to exploit them.

Forests develop more rapidly than timber processing factories 06/04/2013, 06:45:39 PM (VietNamNet Bridge)-Responding to the state’s call for afforestation, local people in Dak Lak province spend their time and money to plant the forests and protect them over the last 10 years. However, they now have to bargain away the wood because there is no big timber processing factory in the locality.

National park land used as collateral for forest protection project funding 29/03/2013, 07:37:10 AM (TP/dtinews)-It has recently become public that the director of the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park used the park as collateral for a loan to develop a forest protection project.

Heavy drought put forests in danger 28/03/2013, 10:02:21 AM (VietNamNet Bridge)-Mekong Delta’s provinces have been urged to get highly ready to fight against the forest fire in the dry season.

Peru declares environmental state of emergency in its rainforest 27/03/2013, 10:00:04 AM (Guardian)-Peru has declared an environmental state of emergency in a remote part of its northern Amazon rainforest, home for decades to one of the country's biggest oil fields, currently operated by the Argentinian company Pluspetrol.

Regenerated forests plucked 23/03/2013, 03:20:47 PM (VietNamNet Bridge)-The Da River regenerated watershed has been seriously devastated. A paradox exists - that if not having deforestation, people would have no land to grow industrial trees to escape poverty, but they will violate the laws if their chop down trees.