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Project launched to boost biodiversity preservation, management

A project on incorporating natural resource management and biodiversity preservation goals into socio-economic development planning and biosphere reserves management in Vietnam was launched in Hanoi on October 27.
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Hanoi (VNA)- A project on incorporating natural resource management and biodiversity preservation goalsinto socio-economic development planning and biosphere reserves management in Vietnam was launchedin Hanoi on October 27.

Speaking at the launching ceremony,Resident Representative of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Vietnam Caitlin Wiesen said the project will help perfect legal regulations on biosphere reserves in Vietnam,assist in sustainable forest recovery and management, promote community-based livelihoodmodels to ease pressure on natural resources in three biosphere reserves, and raiseawareness among stakeholders, to increase their participation in biosphere reservemanagement.

General Director of theVietnam Environment Administration Nguyen Van Tai said Vietnam is now home to nineUNESCO-recognised biosphere reserves.

Most of them, however, are locatedin disadvantaged areas, meaning difficulties in fulfilling biodiversity and economicdevelopment goals remain.

Funded by the Global EnvironmentFacility, the project will be carried out in Hanoi and biosphere reserves in DongNai, Quang Nam, and Nghe An provinces between 2020 and 2025./.

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