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1. What is a special-use forest?
According to Article 5 of the 2017 Forestry Law,
Special-use forests are used mainly to preserve natural forest ecosystems, forest biological genetic resources, scientific research, and preservation of historical-cultural relics, beliefs, and scenic spots combined with tourism. Ecological; recreation and entertainment, except for strictly protected zones of special-use forests; Providing forest environmental services includes:
- National Parks;
- Nature reserve;
- Species and habitat conservation area;
- Landscape protection areas include forests to preserve historical-cultural relics and scenic spots; belief forests; Forests to protect urban environments, industrial parks, export processing zones, economic zones, and high-tech zones;
- Forest for scientific research and experimentation; National Botanical Garden; national seed forest.
2. Current status of special-use forests in Vietnam
The total area of land and special-use forests as of 2019 is 2,373,640 hectares, of which forested land area is 2,161,661 hectares, and land planned for forest development is 211,979 hectares.
As of 2019, many special-use forests in Vietnam have made efforts to build management systems and capacity according to international standards and have received international titles: 9 Biosphere Reserves, and 8 Land Areas. Ramsar floodplains, 5 ASEAN Heritage Sites and 2 World Natural Heritage Sites.
Vietnam approached the IUCN Green List (new global standard for protected areas) at the end of 2017, September 2020 Van Long Nature Reserve officially became the first protected area of Vietnam and East South Asia to achieve the Green List. Currently, Cat Tien National Park, Con Dao National Park, Pu Mat National Park and Cuc Phuong National Park want to register to participate in the process.
3. Measures to protect special-use forests
- Propagate and mobilize people to raise awareness of the role and value of special-use forests for socio-economic development and ecological environment protection.
- Timely implementation of livelihood policies for special-use forest development.
- Maintain troops on duty 24/24 hours, increase patrols, control, and secret ambush throughout the entire area.
- Promoting denunciation mailboxes and community forest patrol groups in villages, especially in areas that are hot spots for illegal exploitation, hiding, buying, selling and transporting forest products.
- The coordinated participation of functional forces, party committees, and local authorities to gradually prevent and repel activities that harm the forest
REFERENCES:
- Luật lâm nghiệp 2017
- Hiện trạng rừng đặc dụng và rừng phòng hộ Việt Nam 2019
- Quản lý, bảo vệ rừng đặc dụng, trách nhiệm của cả cộng đồng
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