Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Monday, June 17, 2002
Vietnam Faces Urgent Environmental Problems
Vietnam faces urgent environmental problems as the country's industrialization and modernization process continues, said a report on the state of the environment in 2001.
Vietnam faces urgent environmental problems as the country's industrialization and modernization process continues, said a report on the state of the environment in 2001.
With the worsening environmental problems facing the country, land and forest are being degraded, air and water are being polluted and solid waste management is inadequate in Vietnam, saidthe report, which was jointly issued recently by Vietnamese Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, the United Nations Environment Program and the Norwegian Agency for International Development.
Vietnam is one of the world's 10 top biodiversity centers, with13,770 species plants, more than 5,000 insects and 1,600 species of other invertebrates.
Six new animal species have been found in Vietnam in recent years, but the over exploitation of biological resources is causing the country's wild animal population to diminish each year,said the report.
The report urged Vietnam's policy-makers, managers and investors to have an over-all view of the country's environment over the past decade and develop a strategy for social and economic development and poverty alleviation that will consider ecologically sustainable development.