Nearly 2.2 million hectares of forest land across the country is at high risk of being exploited and having its designated use changed illegally, a workshop heard in Hanoi on June 24.
Nearly 2.2 million hectares of forest land across the country is at high risk of being exploited and having its designated use changed illegally.(Source: sggp.org.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) 🌱- Nearly 2.2 million hectares of forest land across the country is at high risk of being exploited and having its designated use changed illegally, a workshop heard in Hanoi on June 24.
The forest land at risk has been controlled by people’s committees at the commune level, creating a problem of conflicts of forest land usage between locals, forestry companies, and forest management boards.
The workshop planned to discuss using forest land effectively and sustainably, following the forestry sector restructuring project approved by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) in 2013. The 2013 MARD decision means there will be changes in forests and forestry land in the coming years.
Until 2020, the total area of forest for special purposes will remain at about 2.3 million ha. Meanwhile, protected forest will be transformed into productive land, to ensure the livelihoods of locals and to provide materials for processing and industry.
Recently, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc ordered the closing of natural forests in the Central Highland provinces to avoid overharvesting wood.
Cao Chi Cong, Deputy General Director of the MARD’s Forestry Administration, told Nong Thon Ngay Nay (Countryside Today) that the PM’s order aims to ban wood processing factories from illegally exploiting natural forests for profit, in addition to ending illegal deforestation.
The Central Highland region lost 180,000 ha of forest land between 2010 and 2014, according to the MARD.
In 2015 alone, more than 16,000 deforestation cases were documented in the five Central Highlands provinces, an increase of nearly 500 cases compared to the previous year.-VNA
Many localities across the country, especially in the Northwestern, Central, Central Highlands and Mekong Delta regions, face extremely high forest fire risk due to hot weather and prolonged drought.
The central city of Da Nang is making every effort to raise the ratio of forest coverage to over 45 percent, with nearly 41,000 hectares of natural and 16,000 hectares of planted forest.
Baking weather has pushed the forest fire warning in six provinces to level V – the extremely dangerous level, according to the Vietnam Forest Administration under the MARD.
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Nearly 2.2 million hectares of forest land across the country is at high risk of being exploited and having its designated use changed illegally.(Source: sggp.org.vn)
