Investing US $ 3.5 million in Vietnam's protected areas

The Global Environment Facility (GFE) will donate $ 3.5 million to the Overcoming obstacle project to enhance the effectiveness of managing protected areas in Vietnam.

According to experts, Vietnam is one of the richest countries in terms of biodiversity. Since 2009, Vietnam has protected areas applied to all ecosystems such as the National Park, Nature Reserve, Wildlife Conservation Area and Natural Landscape Conservation Areas.

However, Vietnam is in a state of loss and degradation of natural ecosystems, mainly due to human impacts of expanding agricultural land into forest land. In coastal areas, people still destroy mangroves and sea dykes to grow rice and destroy forests for shrimp ponds, so many mangroves disappear.

Vietnam has about 33,000 plant species and 12,000 animal species,
But many species are on a serious recession. (Photo: Isponre.gov.vn)

The project was implemented in 4 years (2011-2014), implementing step by step in developing a complete legal and policy framework, building processes to manage, gather and disseminate knowledge on biodiversity. learning for the community.

The project is implemented by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in cooperation with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Vietnam Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Previously, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) provided US $ 9 million for the conservation of special-use forests in Vietnam, bringing about effective results in forest management, strengthening the combination of forest rangers, police and residential community, to work together to protect the forest.