Quang Binh Forest Rangers: Maintaining the rich green color in the "fire pan" of the Central region

These days, the Forest Rangers and Forest Protection Forces of the forest owners in Quang Binh regularly organize fire patrols, monitor forest fire spots on satellite images and receive fire alarm information; organize 24/7 duty at watchtowers and in the field in key forest fire areas and strengthen inspection and monitoring of forest fires during peak hot days to promptly detect fire outbreaks in the forest and forest edges, and mobilize forces to promptly extinguish them.

Forest protection forces in Minh Hoa district "tightened" control of people entering and leaving the forest, especially at some border points and dangerous areas.

In the protective forest area of ​​Dong Hoi City and the coastal area of ​​Southern Quang Binh, important tasks are being urgently deployed with the main focus on prevention, proactively detecting and promptly preventing, ensuring “4 on-site”; unifying command, smooth coordination, complying with procedures when implementing, minimizing forest damage and ensuring absolute safety when fighting fires.

Controlled treatment of combustible materials before the hot season in the Dong Hoi City protective forest area and the coastal protective forest area of ​​Southern Quang Binh.

For planted forest areas, the Forest Rangers of Le Thuy District, Quang Ninh Province, and Dong Hoi City have instructed forest owners, organizations, and individuals to promptly carry out the work of treating the ground cover and cleaning the forest when the weather is favorable, ensuring compliance with the requirements of PCCCR. If the weather is hot and sunny with a high risk of forest fires, the unit will request to stop, not treat the ground cover but switch to strengthening the management of heat sources and fire sources in the forest and along the forest edges, absolutely not allowing forest cleaning and ground cover treatment to cause forest fires.

Minh Hoa district forest protection forces are determined to protect the rich green color of the mountains and forests.

In Minh Hoa district, where there are large natural forests and rugged terrain, especially at some border points, the Forest Ranger force has proactively developed fire prevention and control plans suitable for each "hot spot".

“At this time, we mobilized the maximum force to organize regular patrols, and at the same time "tightened" the control of people entering and leaving the forest, especially at some border points and dangerous areas, determined to protect the rich green color of the mountains and forests," said Mr. Nguyen Cong Chung, Head of the Minh Hoa District Forest Protection Department.

Organize 24/7 duty at watchtowers to monitor forest fires during peak hot days.

According to the Quang Binh Forest Protection Department, in order to maintain and protect the existing natural forest area, since the beginning of 2025, the unit has proactively advised authorities at all levels and functional units to guide forest owners to synchronously deploy forest fire prevention and control solutions according to the "4 on-site" motto to respond to the risk of forest fires; strive to reduce by 10-15% the number of law violations in the forestry sector and reduce damage caused by forest fires compared to 2024, in order to firmly protect the "green lung" in the area with harsh hot climate in the Central region.

Installing a surveillance camera system to detect forest fires early in Ngu Thuy Bac commune, Le Thuy district.

In addition, in order to innovate the work of forest management and fire prevention, and to enhance the application of information technology and remote sensing images to monitor forest resources and forest fires, the Forest Protection Department has mobilized funding from the Community Fund for Natural Disaster Prevention to install a camera system to monitor and detect forest fires early in Ngu Thuy Bac commune, Le Thuy district, in order to detect early fire outbreaks and mobilize forces to promptly extinguish them, limiting the damage caused by forest fires.

Surveillance cameras to firmly protect the "green lungs" in the harsh hot climate of the Central region.

“We are always ready with human resources, means and coordinate with other functional forces to deploy guarding, patrolling, controlling and protecting forests at the root, especially forests near residential areas and areas with high potential fire risk. Along with that, the Forest Ranger force also regularly propagates forest fire warnings; coordinates with localities, signs commitments in schools and villages near forests to raise awareness of forest fire prevention and control for the community right from the root to minimize the risk of forest fires that may occur,” added Mr. Nguyen Van Long, Director of the Quang Binh Forest Ranger Sub-Department.

According to Decision 436/QD-UBND of Quang Binh province dated February 21, 2025, the total area of ​​forestry land in the area is 650,154 ha. In which, by function: special-use forest 144,311 ha; protection forest 151,742 ha; production forest 317,828 ha; outside the planning of three types of forest 36,273 ha.

According to the current status, natural forest is 469,482 ha; planted forest is 78,859 ha; planted forest area is 43,837 ha; non-forested land is 57,976 ha. Forest coverage rate is 68.54% (ranked 2nd nationwide). To protect this giant "green lung", the cooperation of the whole society is needed, especially when entering the dry season.

Minh Phuong

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