Month: January 2009

Professor Phan Nguyen Hong from the Mangroves Ecosystem Research Centre – Vietnam National University of Education has won the international Cosmos Prize for his contribution to saving mangrove forests.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a three-year national action plan expected to curb the rapid degradation of bio-diversity in Vietnam.

In the year 2006, SEF received 144 proposals, among them 131 proposals were examinated.

ELIS thematic group – SEMLA Program has held an occasion to announce the detailed design and prototype version for ELIS (Environment and Land Information System) under the SEMLA framework. In this workshop, ELIS thematic group has received contribution idea from national and international experts. Participants of this ELIS thematic group are: Information Center (CIREN), Center of Land Use Inventory and Planning (CoLIP) and Vietnam Environmental Protection Agency (VEPA).

US and Vietnam officials launched a major conservation programme yesterday to preserve biodiversity and improve natural resources management in Vietnam`s largest river basin

Water supply and health officials met in HCM City on Wednesday to take advice from experts on the best new technologies, to treat wastewater at medical facilities.

SEF produces a quarterly newsletter to communicate to its grantees and interested organizations and individuals about updates from field projects, best practices, and relevant information. From 2006, the newsletter has been renovated in a new format with the official title “The Connections” (in Vietnamese: Ket Noi). Below are published issues of the newsletter in Vietnamese language. Please notice that SEF does not publish the English version of this newsletter.

Up to now, there were seven AG meetings, three in Ha Noi April 8- 9, May 6, 2006 and May 24, 2007, and three others in Hoi An July 27-28; Vinh- Nghe An December 17-18, 2006; Phu Quoc – Kien Giang March 16-18, 2007 and in Hue July 21-22, 2007.