Forests protection

VietNamNet Bridge - No hydropower project developer has paid money to the Forest Protection and Development Fund as required. However, Pham Hong Luong, Deputy Director of the Planning and Finance Department of the General Forestry Directorate, has affirmed that no enterprise has paid money to the fund so far. A government's report showed that since 2006, more than 20,000 hectares of forest land has been used for hydropower plants, but investors have re-planted 1,000 hectares. According to Luong, the figure shows two problems. First, there exist problems in the approval and licensing of hydropower projects in localities. And second, hydropower plant developers do not really care about re-planting forests. Commenting about the modest figure of 1,000 hectares of re-planted forests, Luong said that local authorities should not be blamed for this. In fact, local authorities and local people want to develop forests, but they don't have money to do that because they have not received … [Read more...] about No penny paid to Forest Protection and Development Fund

The policy on payment for forest environmental services is a new policy not only for Vietnam. All over the world, there are few countries, which have successfully implemented this policy. Derived from the socio-economic conditions and the actual capacity, Vietnam has set a policy on payment for forest environmental services on the basis of continuity, in accordance with the system of institutions, policies and Vietnam's current laws. The year 2012 has marked the first success of the implementation of this policy across the country. Revenue of approximately 1200 billion The policy on fee and payment for forest environmental services (FES) was implemented nationally in 2012 on the basis of Decree 99/2010/ND-CP on the FES policy of the Government. Discussing this policy, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Mr.Ha Cong Tuan assessed: The practical implementation over the first year has proved that this is a sound policy, generating a sustainable source of revenue for … [Read more...] about Charge of forest environmental services – a sustainable revenue source for forest protection and development

The Can Gio preventive forest plays a very important role in the protection of the environment in HCM City, described as the “lung” cleaning the air and industrial waste converged from Dong Nai River upstream. Kim Chuong, one of the forest keepers The green 37,000 hectare preventive forest has been put under the very stringent security precautions and strictly protected by a lot of local residential families. 5 o’clock in the morning is the time when forest keepers begin rowing boats to the hundreds of hectares of forest they are assigned to protect. Kim Chuong, one of the forest keepers in Tam Hiep commune, related that after the liberalization day in 1975, the Can Gio forest was devastated by the war. The ruined land then became a part of HCM City and began recovering. In an effort to protect the preventive forest, in 1990, the city authorities decided to entrust people with the protection of the forest. And Kim Chuong was one of the first 10 households … [Read more...] about The people who devote themselves to the forest protection