Attending the ceremony were comrades: Nguyen Quoc Tri, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Environment ; Tran Quang Bao, Director of the Department of Forestry and Forestry; Nguyen Khac Hieu, Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Nguyen Van Quan, Deputy Director in charge of the Department of Agriculture and Environment; representatives of international organizations in Vietnam, and many local people.
In Vietnam, although not a country with typical desertification, land degradation is spreading silently and alarmingly. Nearly 11.8 million hectares of land, equivalent to nearly 36% of the natural land area, have been degraded at different levels. The most obvious evidence is the bare lands, bare hills, eroded land in mountainous areas, arid areas in the South Central Coast or saline intrusion in the Mekong Delta.
Faced with this situation, Vietnam has been implementing many synchronous measures, such as: National Forestry Development Strategy to 2030, vision to 2050; Program to plant 1 billion trees in the period of 2021-2025, with the widespread participation of all levels, sectors and the whole society, to date, over 980 million trees have been planted; maintaining a stable forest cover rate of over 42%, significantly higher than the world average (31%).
In parallel, many important programs and projects have been implemented, such as: Improving productivity and quality of planted forests, planting forests under canopy, preventing landslides and soil erosion in upstream areas and steep mountainous areas, restoring and developing coastal mangrove forests to strengthen the natural protection system, prevent land degradation and minimize natural disaster risks due to the impact of climate change.
Vietnam also actively implements international and regional initiatives, mobilizing financial and technical resources from many development partners to protect forests, restore degraded land and improve sustainable livelihoods for local people.
Mechanisms such as REDD+, loans and technical assistance, and public-private partnerships are being effectively leveraged to drive ecosystem restoration.
Launching the campaign “Land Restoration - Open Future”, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Environment Nguyen Quoc Tri emphasized that land degradation cannot be solved by policy documents or single technical solutions. It is a battle that requires the cooperation of the whole community, from policy makers, scientists, businesses, international organizations to each citizen.
Deputy Minister Nguyen Quoc Tri called on authorities at all levels to proactively integrate the goal of combating land degradation into their development strategies; for businesses to actively invest in green and sustainable solutions; and for people to start with small actions, planting one more tree, preserving a piece of land, changing land use habits. That is also the way we pave the way for the future - a green, sustainable and prosperous future.
The 2025 “Land Restoration - Open Future” campaign will focus on specific goals: Planting trees to cover bare land, restore degraded forests; raise public awareness of land value and sustainable land use; enhance typical models in forest restoration, soil improvement, erosion prevention and expand international cooperation, share technology and experience in land restoration.
Speaking at the ceremony, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Khac Hieu said: "Implementing the Project "Planting 1 billion scattered trees in the period of 2021-2025", Vinh Phuc province has planted 3,294 hectares of concentrated forests and 4.03 million scattered trees.
Up to now, the entire forest and forestry land area of the province has been basically covered with green; traffic routes from national highways, provincial roads to village roads and alleys have basically been planted with trees on both sides of the road.
Forests and scattered planted trees are all strictly managed, cared for and protected, so the trees grow and develop well, bringing high economic efficiency, contributing to improving the income and life of forest workers, contributing significantly to the movement of hunger eradication and poverty reduction and new rural construction in localities, and at the same time have been promoting protective effects, contributing significantly to the work of protecting the ecological environment and combating climate change.
Responding to the call of “World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought 2025”, Vinh Phuc province is committed to synchronously implementing the following tasks: Strictly protecting and continuously improving the productivity and quality of existing forests, especially upstream protection forests, special-use forests and concentrated production forests; maintaining stable forest cover of the province after the administrative unit merger at 42.8%.
Along with that, promote the development of green economy and ecological industry; encourage enterprises to apply clean technology; aim for harmony between economic growth and environmental protection; unify in leadership and direction to implement the goal of "not trading the environment for economy".
To realize the theme “Land Restoration - Open the Future”, the Department of Forestry and Forestry has presented 3,000 seedlings of Rosewood and Lat Hoa to the military and local people of Vinh Phuc province for planting, contributing to greening bare land, barren hills and improving the living environment.
News and photos: Khanh Linh
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