In 2023, researchers from the Institute of Tropical Ecology, Joint Vietnam-Russia Tropical Science and Technology Research Center, carried out a study on the avian diversity in the wetlands of the Red River Delta during the migratory season and recorded two species, the Black-faced Spoonbill and the Eurasian Spoonbill, at Xuan Thuy National Park, Nam Dinh Province.
During the survey along the Hao Son-SSuoi Sau route (Deo Ca Special Use Forest), scientists recorded the presence of the Southern Vietnam Box Turtle (Cuora picturata), which weighs about 1 kg. This turtle is extremely rare and endemic to the Phu Yen region and neighboring provinces.
Barramundi (Lates calcarifer), an economically important species for mariculture in the Asia-Pacific region, has been threatened by various infectious diseases. Lates calcarifer herpes virus (LCHV) is a newly emerging virus which was first reported in farmed barramundi in 2015.
Following in the footsteps of scientists from the Coastal Branch, Vietnam-Russia Tropical Center, the reporters of People's Army Newspaper had chances to witness and record the hard work of Vietnamese and Russian scientists in the process of searching, numbering, sampling, preserving, farming and recovering coral reefs and marine species in Nha Trang Bay.
The Lang Trang karstic cave is located in Ba Thuoc district of Thanh Hoa Province, northern Vietnam. Previously, the cave has been researched and discovered by archaeologists and paleontologists of 3 national survey teams (Vietnam - Netherlands, Vietnam - USA).
Testate amoebae are eukaryotic single-cell protozoa that move on pseudopods, have a shell and aperture, usually a few tens to several hundred µm in size. Testate amoebae live mainly in moist soils, swamps, ponds, lakes and freshwater bodies, rarely in brackish and marine environments.
The testate amoeba species Netzelia tuberspinifera (Hu, Shen and Gong, 1997) Gomaa et al., 2017 was firstly discovered and described as Difflugia tuberspinifera in 1997 in the Wujiang River (Guizhou province, China). Then, Yang et al. (2004) redescribed in relatively detail the morphological characteristics of this species based on two populations at Xinzhou and Mulan lakes (Hubei province, China).
Domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris or Canis familiaris) belong to the carnivorous order (Carnivora), mammal class (Mammalia). They are of the animals domesticated by humans very early. According to Dawin, domestic dogs have a multi-ancestral origin, which means that they may have descended from wolves, jackals, and some other carnivores. However, with the help of modern molecular genetic techniques, it has been shown that domestic dogs have only one ancestor, the wolf, one of the closest species in the taxonomy.
In Vietnam, the professional dog breeding has started and operated since 1954 of the twentieth century with the establishment of two large training centers, School 24 (Ministry of Defense) and Center C32 (Ministry of Public Security).
Since the ancient times, the H’mong people have used dogs for hunting and house keeping. Today, under the development of society and laws that prohibit wild animal hunting, the role of dogs is narrowed.
