Strictly control projects that change forest use purposes.

Today, August 23, Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Head of the Steering Committee for Sustainable Forestry Development Program of Quang Tri Province, Ha Sy Dong chaired a meeting to review the tasks of the first 6 months of 2024 and deploy the work of forest management, protection and development, and forest fire prevention and fighting in the coming time.

Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Ha Sy Dong delivered a concluding speech at the meeting - Photo: TN

In the first 6 months of 2024, forestry targets basically met the set plan, making an important contribution to socio- economic development, environmental protection, and maintaining security and national defense.

Accordingly, the Forest Protection Department has received and processed the dossiers of 22 projects to change the purpose of using forests and forestry land with a total proposed area of ​​207.9062 hectares, vacant land in forestry planning 28.3019 hectares, and land area other than forestry planning 36.7256 hectares. Up to now, the whole province has 6 units participating in the implementation and being granted certificates of sustainable forest management, with a total area of ​​26,135.65 hectares.

In addition, in the province, there were 5 forest fires, with a burned area of ​​26.1 hectares and 3 fires of vegetation and grass under the forest canopy that did not cause damage to the forest.

The cumulative forestation area from the beginning of the year to June 2024 is 4,157.35 hectares (52.0% of the plan); scattered tree planting reached 1,742,000 trees; forestry seedling production reached 10,678,000 trees. Responding to the "Tree Planting Festival", the province also organized the planting and care of 154,414 trees of all kinds.

In forest protection work, the authorities have strengthened the fight to prevent and plant information at the grassroots level to inspect and control forest products; as a result, 33 violations have been recorded, 42 administrative violations have been handled, 431.75 million VND have been fined, and 56,996 m3 of round timber of all kinds have been confiscated.

However, the management, protection and development of forests in the province still face some limitations such as: Illegal exploitation, trading, transportation of timber and deforestation for farming, encroachment of forest land still occur; forest development is not really linked with processing industry and consumption market.

The income of forest workers is still low, unstable and risky, has not attracted economic sectors to invest in forestry development, has not created a chain of links from planting, exploitation, processing and trading of forest products; the plan to completely resolve the situation of encroachment and forest encroachment is still slow to be implemented, causing great impacts on forest management and protection...

In his concluding remarks, Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Ha Sy Dong requested members of the Steering Committee of the Sustainable Forestry Development Program to closely monitor the locality to thoroughly handle the remaining problems and limitations. The People's Committees of districts, towns and cities direct units to seriously implement the local Sustainable Forestry Development Program, clearly assigning responsibilities to each member. Develop plans to mobilize forces, means, materials, equipment and logistics in forest protection work.

In addition, direct local police, military and forest rangers to implement coordination regulations, be ready to handle urgent situations in forest management, protection and forest fire prevention, and have plans to inspect and handle violations. Regularly monitor and manage shifting cultivation activities in areas near forests. Strengthen inspection and supervision of forest exploitation to update the output of timber exploitation from planted forests and other forest products.

Strictly control projects that change the purpose of forest use according to the law. Localities coordinate with relevant agencies to review the support mechanism for planting large timber forests and high-quality forests.

Promptly implement the approved detailed plan to convert less vulnerable protective forest land into production forest, ensuring compliance with regulations. Coordinate with units in the handover work to resolve land-related problems during the process of handing over forest land to local management, limiting illegal encroachment and encroachment.

Tien Nhat

Source: https://baoquangtri.vn/kiem-soat-chat-che-cac-du-an-co-chuyen-doi-muc-dich-su-dung-rung-187831.htm