Proactively prevent and control wildfires.

The province currently has nearly 470,000 hectares of natural forest, over 78,000 hectares of planted forest, and nearly 44,000 hectares of forest land already planted with trees. With a forest cover rate of 68.54% (ranking second nationwide), the management, protection, utilization, and development of forests and forest fire prevention and control in the province require the joint efforts of the entire community, especially during the dry season.

Forest rangers guide forest owners on effective forest fire prevention and control during the dry season.

Therefore, right from the beginning of the 2025 dry season, the Provincial Forest Protection Department proactively advised the Provincial People's Committee, the Provincial Steering Committee for Sustainable Forestry Development (SFM), and the Department of Agriculture and Environment to direct localities, units, and forest owners to implement forest fire prevention and control measures, such as: Strengthening inspection and guidance for forest owners to carry out forest sanitation and undergrowth clearing to reduce flammable materials before the dry season; repairing and renovating SFM facilities; purchasing additional firefighting equipment and tools; consolidating the SFM Steering Committee at all levels and strengthening SFM rapid response teams at the grassroots level; developing forest protection and SFM plans at all levels and for forest owners based on the "four on-the-spot" principle to respond to the risk of forest fires...

The Dong Hoi Forest Protection Unit uses cameras to assist in monitoring forest fire prevention and control efforts.

According to Pham Van But, Head of the Le Thuy District Forest Protection Department: “Taking advantage of favorable weather conditions, from the end of 2024 to the present, forest owners, including organizations, households, and individuals in the district, have proactively cleared undergrowth, cleaned forests, applied controlled burning methods, and removed flammable materials from the forest. To date, many planted forest areas requiring undergrowth clearing in the district have been cleared in accordance with the guidance of specialized agencies. For the remaining areas, the District Forest Protection Department continues to guide forest owners to urgently carry out undergrowth clearing and forest cleaning when the weather is favorable, ensuring compliance with forest fire prevention and control requirements. If hot weather poses a high risk of forest fires, the unit will request that undergrowth clearing be stopped and instead focus on strengthening the management of heat and fire sources in and around the forest. In addition, the unit instructs forest owners to create a buffer zone separating the undergrowth clearing area from easily flammable forests; and to have a plan and schedule for selecting the appropriate time for clearing undergrowth.” "Suitable burning locations and the deployment of forest fire prevention and control forces and equipment must ensure safety; absolutely no forest cleaning or vegetation clearing activities should cause forest fires."

“Besides implementing various solutions to proactively prevent and control forest fires, right from the beginning of the 2025 dry season, the Minh Hoa District Forest Management Unit advised the District People's Committee to identify key areas with a high risk of forest fires in order to implement response measures during the dry season. For example, the remaining area of pine resin plantations funded by Project 661 in Hong Hoa and Yen Hoa communes, with a total area of over 50 hectares…”, Mr. Nguyen Cong Chung, Head of the Minh Hoa District Forest Management Unit, added.

Currently, the Provincial Steering Committee for the Forest Protection and Development Program has directed the Forest Ranger and Forest Protection forces of forest management units to regularly organize fire patrols, monitor forest fire hotspots using satellite imagery, and receive fire reports. During the intense and prolonged hot days of the 2025 dry season, functional forces will organize 24/7 patrols at watchtowers and in the field in key forest fire-prone areas; at the same time, they will strengthen inspection and monitoring of forest fires during peak hot days to detect and mobilize forces to extinguish them promptly...

Mr. Le Trung Hien, Head of the Forest Protection and Nature Conservation Management Department of the Provincial Forest Protection Sub-Department, further informed that at this time, the Forest Protection force and forest management units are monitoring and updating forest changes; creating forest management records down to the level of forest owners. In addition, the sub-department is strengthening guidance to localities and units to review and update changes in management ownership in their areas, build databases on forest change monitoring software; and promote digital transformation and the application of remote sensing technology in monitoring forest resource changes to detect early cases of deforestation, forest fires, and illegal logging so that timely preventive and remedial measures can be taken.

In 2025, Quang Binh strives to effectively manage and protect its existing natural forest area, conserve biodiversity; prevent deforestation and illegal logging; minimize forest fires and the damage they cause; and aim to reduce the number of forestry law violations and forest fire damage by 10-15% compared to 2024.

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Source: https://baoquangbinh.vn/xa-hoi/202503/chu-dong-phong-ngua-giac-lua-2225150/