Germany helps Vietnam preserve biodiversity
The project, imlemented by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), marks efforts of both Vietnam and Germany
in the conservation of biodiversity, said Alice Salburg-Falkenstein, a
KFW representative, at the project’s launch ceremony on August 11, in
the central province of Quang Nam, a target area of the project.
It is part of a larger-scale scheme named “Decreasing deforestation
and forest degradation in the border area of Central Vietnam and
Southern Laos ”, which is designed to protect carbon reserves and
biodiversity.
The four-year project, starting this
year, will strive for sustainable management of an area of 200,000
hectares of border forest in the central Truong Son mountain range.
With three natural reserves, including the Sao La Nature Reserve, the
extended Bach Ma National Park of Vietnam and the Xe Sap Nature Reserve
of Laos, the target region absorbs a large volume of carbon and is home
to a significant range of flora and fauna.
The
project will also focus on improving capacity and management at the Sao
La Nature Reserve, raising the quality of natural forest in the Tay
Giang corridor in Quang Nam while heightening State management in Sekong
and Saravan provinces of Laos and monitoring the illegal cross-border
timber trade./.