Experts discuss measures to better manage forests

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Báo QĐND English 15 hour(s) ago

Experts discuss measures to better manage forests

PANO - A seminar entitled “Jointly managing special function forests in Vietnam: practical lessons and proposals for policies” aiming to improve the management of special function forests in the country was held on May 24th in Hoa Binh city.

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Laws still cannot help protect the forests

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VietnamNet English 12 month(s) ago

Laws still cannot help protect the forests

VietNamNet Bridge – Though Vietnam has a close legal framework on protecting forests and wildlife, the laws seem unhelpful. Green forests still have been devastated, while wild animals still have been killed.

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Central region: green forests shout for help as they are devastated

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Báo Dân Trí English 14 month(s) ago 1 related news

Central region: green forests shout for help as they are devastated

Dak Lak and Dak Nong Provinces have leased forest land to enterprises to grow rubber trees, manage and protect the forests. However, while the rubber projects still cannot bring profits, the green forests have been seriously devastated.

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Central region: green forests shout for help as they are devastated

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VietnamNet English 14 month(s) ago 1 related news

Central region: green forests shout for help as they are devastated

VietNamNet Bridge – Dak Lak and Dak Nong provinces have leased forest land to enterprises to grow rubber trees, manage and protect the forests. However, while the rubber projects still cannot bring profits, the green forests have been seriously devastated.

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The plight of protecting the forests

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VietnamNet English 14 month(s) ago

The plight of protecting the forests

VietNamNet Bridge – While lumberjacks illegally attack forests throughout the country, they do not dare to set foot on the forests in Khau Tinh commune of Na Hang district in Tuyen Quang province.

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Ca Mau plants 800 ha of forests in 2011

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Báo QĐND English 29 month(s) ago

Ca Mau plants 800 ha of forests in 2011

PANO – Vietnam’s southern-most province of Ca Mau had planned to plant 800 ha of forests in 2011 to bring the Province’s whole area of forests to 102,900 ha, local officials said.

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Pine forests disappear, Da Lat gets ragged

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VietnamNet English 5 day(s) ago 1 related news

Pine forests disappear, Da Lat gets ragged

VietNamNet Bridge – The pine forests in both the inner city and suburbs of the famous tourism land of Da Lat have been killed because people need land areas for their houses.

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Sea “swallows” hundreds of hectares of forests and shrimp farms

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VietnamNet English 1 week(s) ago

Sea “swallows” hundreds of hectares of forests and shrimp farms

VietNamNet Bridge - Approximately 100 hectares of preventive forests and 20 hectares of shrimp farms in the town of Sam Son of Thanh Hoa Province, central Vietnam, have disappeared due to sea encroachment.

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Forests turn bare, exhausted

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VietnamNet English 1 week(s) ago

Forests turn bare, exhausted

VietNamNet Bridge – The poor forests should be improved by the afforestation instead of letting them get destroyed for economic projects.

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Tuyen Quang to move families from forests

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VietNam News English 1 month(s) ago

The northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang will spend over VND6 billion (around US$300,000) to relocate 166 local families who are living in special-use or protected forests near areas prone to landslides.

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Afforestation in return for hydropower plants ignored

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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 1 month(s) ago

Afforestation in return for hydropower plants ignored

Though afforestation to compensate for the area of forests engulfed by hydropower plants is a must, Vietnam has still seen thousands of hectares of natural forests disappear in the past six years.

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When forests run out of wood

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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 1 month(s) ago

When forests run out of wood

Locals in some villages in the Central Highlands, where have been covered by forests for centuries, are increasingly unable to preserve their burial ceremony traditions as they are left with no wood to decorate cemeteries.

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Phu Quoc forests on high alert for fire

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VietNam News English 2 month(s) ago

Nearly 36,500 hectares of forests in the southern province of Kien Giang's Phu Quoc Island District were put at the fifth alert level for forest fires.

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Melaleuca forests face fire risk

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VietNam News English 3 month(s) ago

Melaleuca forests face fire risk

More than half of the melaleuca forests in the southernmost province of Ca Mau are at high risk of wildfire due to prolonged dry weather.

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Revival of mangrove forests

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Hanoi Times English 3 month(s) ago 6 related news

The Hanoitimes - Vietnam has had a rich and diverse ecosystem of mangrove forests, which were mostly destroyed in the past.

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