Positive news from Viet Nam
Giving Vietnam’s street kids a chanceMichael Brosowski started the Blue Dragon Children's Foundation to help Vietnamese youth get off the streets. Since 2004, he and his group have helped more than 350 children find safe shelter and enroll in school. |
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‘Asian unicorn’ to get new Vietnam nature reserveVietnam is setting up a nature reserve to protect one of the world's rarest animals - an antelope-like creature called the saola. |
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Vietnam’s own ‘great wall’ uncoveredNestled in the mountain foothills of a remote province in central Vietnam, one of the country's most important archaeological discoveries in a century has recently come to light. |
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Vietnam Cracks Down on Illegal Wildlife TradeVietnam authorities arrested more than a dozen restaurant owners for planning to serve meals of pangolins, porcupines, mouse deer, monitor lizards, bears, snakes, and other rare animals—amounting to more than 850 pounds of meat. |
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Governments See Dollars in Re-Grown ForestsAs international attention shifts to Copenhagen and the coming United Nations conference on climate change, reforestation is emerging as a critical issue for the environment and as a source for government revenue. |
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Bamboo Living’s School is Earthquake and Hurricane SafeTraditional brick school facades could become a thing of the past as educational institutions aim for sustainability. |
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Renowned Swedish retailer donates proceeds from toy sales to UNICEF projectsUnited Nations - This holiday season, scores of projects aimed at improving the education of school children around the world are set to profit from an IKEA initiative to the tune of €5 million (almost $7 million), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced today. |
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Endangered bears find refuge in new Vietnam center
TAM DAO, Vietnam (Reuters) - A furry black bear cub playfully clasps a rubber pet toy between its paws and eats fruit in its new home -- Vietnam's first refuge for bears rescued from abusive traffickers of bile used in traditional medicines.
The bear is one of four 50 kg (110 lb) endangered Asiatic black cubs and two adults that were smuggled either from neighboring Laos or from southern Vietnam in the past seven months, and confiscated by the authorities.
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Bamboo, dubbed ‘vegetal steel,’ superb for buildingGirardot, Colombia - Forget steel and concrete. The building material of choice for the 21st century might just be bamboo. |
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Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. |
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News from Southeast Asia
- Victory for Forests: Disney Stands Up for Endangered Forests and Animals
- Philippines and Muslim rebels sign key peace plan
- Myanmar government abolishes direct media censorship
- Southeast Asia’s largest lowland rainforest spared from new land concessions
- Conservationists pledge to double number of tiny buffalo
- KFC-Indonesia suspends purchases from Asia Pulp & Paper due to deforestation
- Scientists recruit aerial drones to combat illegal logging
- Burmese savour taste of democracy
- Nations get tough on tiger trade
- ‘Pyramids’ planted to revive Philippine corals