Sixty volunteers, including 15 old people, began a trans-Vietnam cycling tour at the Botanical Garden in Hanoi on June 29 to raise public awareness of environment protection.
The tour aims to enhance communications and encourage communities to get involved in environmental protection, especially the protection of forests and wild animals, and to join hands to prevent climate change. It is also part of activities to mark the 50th anniversary of historic Ho Chi Minh Trail, which has been rebuilt into Ho Chi Minh Highway paralleling the existing trans-national highway No.1.
Communication campaigns on the environment will be launched in provinces and cities where the volunteers are cycling through, including Thanh Hoa, Ha Tinh, Kon Tum and Dak Lak.
The more than 2,000-km long journey will finish in HCMC on August 5.
The tour is being jointly hosted by the Cycling for Environment Club (C4E), the Vietnam Association for Nature and Environment Protection and the Centre for Youth Activities of Thua Thien-Hue Province.