The Market Management Department of the central province of Quảng Nam yesterday seized two tonnes of rosewood (Dalbergia cochinchinensis) without clear origin from a truck.

A Government decision with detailed mechanisms is needed for people to better practise their rights on monitoring land use and management, experts have recommended.

The Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) provinces are taking measures to ensure that 2.56 million hectares of forests are not affected by fire during the peak of the dry season.

The Australian Government has invested some AUD$100 million (US$77.4 million) in 170 research projects in Việt Nam in the past 25 years.

The Việt Nam Administration of Forestry (VAF) has urged localities nationwide to take drastic measures to prevent and control forest fires, given the hot and dry weather in the country.

As hot weather peaks this month in southern Việt Nam, authorities in the Cửu Long (Mekong Delta) region are stepping up efforts to cope with forest fires and salinisation as a response to climate change. 

 The Forest Protection Department in the central province of Quảng has reported that it has issued a 15-day work suspension notification to six forest rangers.

Two illegal logging cases were discovered in the central province’s Đông Giang and Nam Giang districts in March, with 77 big trees chopped down. Local rangers and the two protective forest management boards of Sông Kôn and Nam Sông Bung claimed they were unaware of the cases until the public security agency began investigations.

Việt Nam’s wood industry faces a quandary as bright export growth prospects are clouded by difficulties in finding the necessary raw materials.

Authorities in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai are struggling to find solutions to address deforestation and and development violations, which are rampant in many localities across the province.