The German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) organisation will invest 300 million VND to build the first nursery breeding trees for mangrove forests in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu.

Director of the provincial bird sancturary Nguyen Trung Chanh said on June 7 that the 1,200 sq.m nursery in the Bac Lieu bird sanctuary will provide 100,000 trees per crop. The trees will be planted in the bird sanctuary and coastal forests, part of the German-funded Sustainable Management of Coastal Mangrove Forest Ecosystem project in Bac Lieu province./.