Marine and Coastal Ecosystems

News & Events

2012

 

Clam ground in Ba Tri District, Ben Tre Province

What’s causing large-scale clam deaths in Ben Tre?

Ben Tre is a major supplier of white clam seeds for other parts of the Mekong Delta and elsewhere in Vietnam. Of Ben Tre’s 65-km coastline, 50 km are used for clam growing and its clams are a respected brand that offers clam collectors high profits. All eight of Ben Tre’s clam cooperatives are certified by the Marine Stewardship Council. However, according to local government officials, over the last three years there have been increasing episodes of clam death. …   | Vietnamese

04 May 2012 | Article
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Villager repairing fish net

Near-shore fishing in Can Gio: a precarious living

As part of a BCR training workshop for provincial government staff in Can Gio on April 4-6, 2012, IUCN organized a short visit to Dong Tranh, a fishing village located right next to Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve where the trainees could test their skills at carrying out vulnerability and capacity assessments. …   | Vietnamese

24 Apr 2012 | News story
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Participants visit a fishing village in Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve

BCR training of trainers workshop in Can Gio

A major objective of IUCN’s Building Coastal Resilience (BCR) is to link provincial level investments in climate change adaptation with explicit needs based on assessments of vulnerability and community capacity at the community level. On April 4-6, 2012, IUCN organized a Training of Trainers (TOT) workshop for government and partner staff who will be involved in the Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (VCA) workshops in BCR’s five focal provinces in the Mekong Delta. To learn more about the TOT workshop, click here. …   | Vietnamese

23 Apr 2012 | Event
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Mangrove planting in Xuan Thuy National Park

Mangrove restoration in Viet Nam: national plans vs. local realities

Vietnam’s government likes to deliver development through top-down national plans such as Program 661, the five million hectare reforestation program (that ended in 2010 and ended up replanting 2.5 million hectares over 12 years). The government’s fondness for national programs stems from a history of central planning, which involved central government issuing a huge number of targets for ministries to fulfill. The doi moi reforms of the mid-1980s officially moved Viet Nam to a market economy but the central planning mentality lingers. …   | Vietnamese

09 Apr 2012 | Article
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Journalists interview Prof. Chu Hoi at Lap An Lagoon, Thua-Thien-Hue

Training workshop for environmental journalists on "Investing in coasal ecosystems"

Viet Nam is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, sea level rise, and potential tsunami. In addition, other coastal impacts has been rapidly increasing such as salt intrusion, ecosystems changes, depleted coastal fresh groundwater resources, uncertain livelihoods of local people in coastal areas,..What should be the solution to coastal sustainable development, to reduce unavoidable impacts, to adapt to rapidly changing coastal areas, and to improve local people’s livelihoods? Investing in coastal ecosystesms could be seen as one reliable and sustainable solution, to secure future for coastal areas. …   | Vietnamese

30 Mar 2012 | Media advisory
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Mangroves in Kien Giang Province

First BCR Coastal Forum 2012: some impressions

I was part of the Vietnamese group that attended the first EU-funded Building Coastal Resilience (BCR) Coastal Forum that was held in Chanthaburi, Thailand on February 29-March 2, 2012. Throughout the three days, I was impressed by the high level of participation, the high quality of most of the presentations, and the amount that the three BCR countries - Thailand, Cambodia, and Viet Nam - can learn from each other. Several things struck me from the forum. …   | Vietnamese

20 Mar 2012 | Article
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Deploying devices

Back from the brink: experience of a fishing village in Rayong, Thailand

The following story was based on a field trip organized as part of the first European Union Building Coastal Resilience (BCR) Forum in Chanthaburi, Thailand on February 28-March 2, 2012.
  | Vietnamese

08 Mar 2012 | Article

BCR Coastal Forum audiences

Press Release: Climate change solutions for the coasts of Cambodia, Thailand and Viet Nam

Around the world coastal communities are struggling to understand what climate change means for them and what they should do about it. While the global discussion about what the world should do about climate change lingers on, for coastal communities the effects are very real and happening now. …  

01 Mar 2012 | Media statement

Mangroves in Lap An Lagoon, Thua-Thien-Hue

Mangroves conservation in Lap An Lagoon, Thua-Thien-Hue

Lap An Lagoon lies in Lang Co Town, Phu Loc District, Thua-Thien-Hue Province. Twenty years ago, the lagoon had about 100 hectares of mangroves. By 2010, there were only five hectares of poor quality mangrove left. This rapid decline was the result of conversion to aquaculture, unsustainable fishing, and road building. The remaining mangroves are now threatened by clearance for a golf course that forms part of the local government’s master plan for the Chan May-Lang Co Economic Zone. …   | Vietnamese

24 Feb 2012 | Article
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Mangrove planting in Hau Loc, Thanh Hoa

Mangrove for the Future in Vietnam - Medium-sized Grant Facility - call for proposals

Mangroves for the Future (MFF) is pleased to announce the launch of a Medium-sized Grant Facility (MGF). MFF is a partnership-led initiative to promote investment in coastal ecosystems (corals, sea grasses, estuaries, mud flats, etc.) including but not restricted to mangroves. For more information about MFF, visit: http://www.mangrovesforthefuture.org. …  

20 Feb 2012 | News story
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  • Training workshop for 300 fishermen on marine turtle conservation and habitat protection
  • Global Forum on Oceans, Islands and Coastal Areas – April
  • Public awareness and education program on sea turtle conservation in Quang Tri Province– March

 

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