Chuyên mục: Phát triển môi trường xanh và sạch – Developing a green and clean environment

‘Báu vật’ ở quê lúa Nghệ An

~ Phạm Thu Hương ~ Bình luận về bài viết này

VE – Tại xã Lăng Thành (Yên Thành, Nghệ An) hiện có hơn 100 ha rừng lim cổ thụ được người dân xem như “báu vật”.

Là huyện nửa trung du miền núi, nửa đồng bằng, Yên Thành được biết đến là vựa lúa của Nghệ An. Trong 39 đơn vị hành chính của huyện, Lăng Thành là xã rất đặc biệt, được bao bọc bởi 106 ha rừng lim. Từ trung tâm xã đến rừng lim gần nhất chỉ một cây số, đó là Rú Chùa, xa hơn nữa là Hóc Nông, Đồng Bàu, Vệ Thạng…

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Khu rừng lim tại xã Lăng Thành. Ảnh: Phan Ngọc.

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Good news for forest animals

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VNS

Updated  August, 15 2015 12:00:00

Luckily for animals like the langurs and the gibbons, their forest homes are going to get more protection.

This will be happening because of an agreement between Viet Nam government agencies and an international environmental organisation.

It will mean that more work will be done to help guards who protect the forests from people wishing to destroy them and the creatures that live in them.

A red-shanked douc (Pygathrix nemaeus) is caught by a biologist in the natural reserve in Son Tra Peninsula in Da Nang City.
A red-shanked douc (Pygathrix nemaeus) is caught by a biologist in the natural reserve in Son Tra Peninsula in Da Nang City. – Photos courtesy of the Frankfurt Zoological Society in Viet Nam

DA NANG — The Viet Nam Administration of Forestry (VNFOREST) and the Frankfurt Zoological Society in Viet Nam have inked a five-year conservation plan.

The agreement covers strengthening of the management and supervision of biodiversity in national parks and natural reserves in the Central and Central Highlands regions. Tiếp tục đọc “Good news for forest animals” →

NASA, USAID Open Environmental Information Hub for Southeast Asia

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Aug. 31, 2015
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SERVIR-Mekong Launch
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden (right) cuts the ceremonial ribbon celebrating the opening of the SERVIR-Mekong hub in Bangkok, Thailand, on Monday, Aug. 31, 2015. Beth Paige (center), mission director for USAID Regional Mission for Asia, and Bhichit Rattakul, special advisor to the Asian Disaster Prepardness Center, joined Bolden.
Credits: USAID Asia

 
NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Monday launched SERVIR-Mekong, a joint project to strengthen regional environmental monitoring in five countries in the lower Mekong region of Southeast Asia.

One of three SERVIR hubs now operating in developing regions of the world, the center is housed at the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center in Bangkok, Thailand, and joins a growing global community of scientists and decision-makers using publicly available data from space assets to address critical regional issues. Tiếp tục đọc “NASA, USAID Open Environmental Information Hub for Southeast Asia” →

17 Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

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Below is an excerpt from the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, showing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals

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Sustainable Development Goals

  • Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
  • Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
  • Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
  • Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
  • Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
  • Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
  • Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
  • Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
  • Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
  • Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries
  • Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
  • Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
  • Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*
  • Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
  • Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
  • Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
  • Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

* Acknowledging that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the primary international, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change. Tiếp tục đọc “17 Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” →