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Lam Dong launches biodiversity conservation action plan

The Central Highlands province of Lam Dong is designing projects to preserve biodiversity and create protection corridors around sensitive ecosystems in need of conservation as part of its biodiversity action plan for 2015-2020.
The Central Highlandsprovince of Lam Dong is designing projects to preserve biodiversity andcreate protection corridors around sensitive ecosystems in need ofconservation as part of its biodiversity action plan for 2015-2020.

The action plan focuses on effective management, conservation andsustainable development, including communication and educationalcampaigns to increase communities’ awareness of protecting andsustainably using biodiversity in line with socio-economic development.

The province will also increase communities’ role in managing and developing biological resources.

A number of projects will be implemented with support from the State,non-governmental organisations and local authorities’ fund.

Twoprojects to protect and develop the red pine tree, one of the mostvaluable medicinal plants in the province, will also be carried out aspart of the action plan. Accordingly, the red pine tree’s distributionwill be researched and mapped out, natural regeneration will befostered, and seed germination and protection measures will beimplemented.

Lam Dong is the most biodiversity-rich province inthe Central Highlands and south-central region. It comprises 512,000haof natural forest and 68.8ha of planted forest, which are home to anumber of rare flora and fauna species listed in Vietnam’s Red Book.-VNA
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