Police detain 15 forest poachers

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VietNam News English 2 month(s) ago

Loc Ninh District police yesterday announced that 15 residents had been detained for resisting and assault causing injury on forest management officials after they were found logging illegally in the forest .

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Gov't mulls forest closures as illegal loggers loom

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VietNam News English 7 month(s) ago

Gov't mulls forest closures as illegal loggers loom

According to a recent project draft for Viet Nam's handling of natural forest exploitation from 2013-20, these forests could be closed from as early as 2013 in a bid to stop illegal logging.

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Rangers can help nation stay green

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VietNam News English 7 month(s) ago

Rangers can help nation stay green

Forest rangers played an important role in protecting the local environment by involving local authorities and the community in the fight against forest fires, deforestation and illegal logging, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Ha Cong Tuan said.

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Illegal loggers strike for a third time

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VietNam News English 8 month(s) ago

One hectare of forest containing 60 cubic metres of timber has been felled in the Central Highland province of Gia Lai's Krong Cho District.

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French crusader for gibbons in Borneo jungle

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Báo Dân Trí English 11 month(s) ago

French crusader for gibbons in Borneo jungle

For 15 years Aurelien Brule has lived in the Indonesian jungle, crusading against palm oil multinationals, loggers and corruption in his bid to save endangered gibbons from annihilation.

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Illegal loggers still destroying forests

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VietnamNet English 12 month(s) ago 1 related news

Illegal loggers still destroying forests

VietNamNet Bridge – Over 13,700 violations of forest protection and timber management laws were reported nationwide in the fist six months of the year, 10 per cent fewer than in the same period last year, Viet Nam Administration of Forestry deputy director Ha Cong Tuan told participants at a forestry sector review meeting here yesterday, July 10.

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Illegal loggers still destroying forests

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VietNam News English 12 month(s) ago 1 related news

Over 13,700 violations of forest protection and timber management laws were reported nationwide in the fist six months of the year, 10 per cent fewer than in the same period last year, Viet Nam Administration of Forestry deputy director Ha Cong Tuan told participants at a forestry sector review meeting here yesterday.

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Timber seized from smugglers left to rot

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VietNam News English 12 month(s) ago

Tens of cubic metres of Glyptostrobus pensilis (water pine) which had been seized from loggers and illegal wood smugglers in the Central Highland province of Dac Lak are starting to rot due to bad weather and storage conditions.

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Concrete culverts to prevent loggers

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VietNam News English 14 month(s) ago

Nam Cao Park Sua trees in northern Ha Nam Province were hedged by concrete culverts to help protect them from loggers, said Nguyen Ba Doan, a park guard.

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Law of the jungle

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SaigonTimes English 14 month(s) ago

The most striking issue mainstreamed in local media these days is probably the illegal logging of three giant trees known as sua, a rare wood species whose scientific name is Dalbergia tonkinensis prain, in the central province of Quang Binh’s Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park. The whole picture regarding this issue can be termed anarchy, when looters, robbers, and cheaters roam the villages and the forest, while intervention from authorities is limited to slow reaction, if not inaction. In such...

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Illicit logging plagues Nghe An

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Báo Dân Trí English 15 month(s) ago

Illicit logging plagues Nghe An

DTiNews reporters have uncovered illegal logging that is gradually decimating protected forests of Nghe An Province’s Que Phong District due to lax management.

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Official prosecuted over illegal logging

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VietNam News English 16 month(s) ago

Nguyen Van Ngoc, director of Ta Thiet Protective Forest's Management Board in northern Binh Phuoc Province's Loc Ninh District, has been prosecuted for alleged corruption in forestry management, according to a decision from the provincial people's procuracy.

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Illegal loggers use new reservoirs as transport routes

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VietnamNet English 16 month(s) ago

Illegal loggers use new reservoirs as transport routes

VietNamNet Bridge – More perennial trees in the central province of Quang Nam have been cut down as loggers have increasingly used reservoirs near new power plants as a means of transport in the area.

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Illegal loggers use new reservoirs as transport routes

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VietnamNet English 16 month(s) ago

Illegal loggers use new reservoirs as transport routes

VietNamNet Bridge – More perennial trees in the central province of Quang Nam have been cut down as loggers have increasingly used reservoirs near new power plants as a means of transport in the area.

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Illegal loggers use new reservoirs as transport routes

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VietNam News English 16 month(s) ago

More perennial trees in the central province of Quang Nam have been cut down as loggers have increasingly used reservoirs near new power plants as a means of transport in the area.

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