The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the World Bank (WB) - the trustee agency of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) - signed an Emissions Reduction Purchase Agreement (ERPA) at a ceremony on October 22.
The encroachment and illegal use of forestry land and free migration, if left unsettled, will cause significant losses to national resources, say insiders.
Japan’s experience in land management was introduced at a workshop held in Hanoi on December 8 within the framework of the “initiative and research on Japan-ASEAN strategic policy on land management institution” programme.
Police and forest rangers of Hue city in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue are in co-operation to identify the persons who illegally cut down 3,000sq.m of special-use pine forest last month.
The policy of land and forest allocation for residential communities and ethnic households living in mountainous areas has proved effective over the past more than two decades.
The Vietnam Administration of Forestry (VNForest) has proposed a halt to two projects developing commercial activities in natural forest and forestry land in the central province of Phu Yen.
The Central Highlands province of Dak Lak is taking a number of measures to reclaim nearly 51,000 hectares of forest land that were illegally occupied for reforestation.
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