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Illegal loggers enlist local support in fight against authorities

January 15, 2010  . Filed under News, Social

Illegal loggers enlist local support in fight against authorities

Illegal loggers and local residents allied with them fought forest rangers in a national park for 10 hours Saturday last week before police could confiscate illegally cut timber the rangers had discovered. Yok Don National Park rangers in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak found a car containing around four... Read more

Fearful daughter sends hoax threats to upright forest warden

January 3, 2010  . Filed under News, Social

Fearful daughter sends hoax threats to upright forest warden

The daughter of a forest-ranger chief sent her father threatening SMS messages pretending to be an illegal logger since she was worried loggers would attack him if he continued to arrest them. LookAtVietnam - The daughter of a forest-ranger chief in the northern Vietnam sent her father threatening SMS messages pretending to be an illegal logger since she was... Read more

Protected forests go unprotected

December 13, 2009  . Filed under News, Sci-Tech

Protected forests go unprotected

LookAtVietnam - Vast swathes of protected forest on Phu Quoc Island have been illegally cut down by landowners holding fraudulently-obtained property rights. “It looks like football fields scattered around the forest,” said a local resident on the country’s biggest island in the southern province of Kien Giang.“They make double profit... Read more

Protected forests go unprotected

December 5, 2009  . Filed under News, Social

Protected forests go unprotected

A swath of protected forest cut down on Phu Quoc Island. Vast swathes of protected forest on Phu Quoc Island have been illegally cut down by landowners holding fraudulently-obtained property rights. “It looks like football fields scattered around the forest,” said a local resident on the country’s... Read more

Ministry wants nationwide task force for forest protection

August 23, 2009  . Filed under News, Social

Ministry wants nationwide task force for forest protection

LookAtVietnam – A new task force to protect and expand forests has been proposed in response to illegal logging of more than 1,300h of forests in the first half of 2009.  Park rangers bust an illegal logging case in the central region. LookAtVietnam - A new task force to protect and expand forests has been proposed in response to the illegal logging... Read more

Ministry wants nationwide task force for forest protection

August 20, 2009  . Filed under News, Social

Ministry wants nationwide task force for forest protection

Park rangers bust an illegal logging case in the central region. A new task force to protect and expand forests has been proposed in response to the illegal logging of more than 1,300 hectares of forests in the first half of 2009. The proposal, submitted to the government early this week by the Ministry of Agriculture... Read more

Illegal loggers clearing purebred pine forest near Da Lat

August 14, 2009  . Filed under News, Social

Illegal loggers clearing purebred pine forest near Da Lat

Half-burnt waste wood boards left behind by illegal loggers at the Xuan Tho Forest in Lam Dong Province’s Da Lat Town Vast swaths of 40-year-old pine trees have been chopped down illegally in a forest just 10 kilometers from the resort town of Da Lat in the Central Highlands. The trees (Pinus kesiya) are purebred... Read more

New road helps illegal loggers: report

July 7, 2009  . Filed under News

New road helps illegal loggers: report

Trees illegally cut down in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai Local authorities have built a new road that lends suspicious help to illegal loggers smuggling timber in central Vietnam, Lao Dong (Labor) newspaper reported over the weekend. The road runs through a protected forest upstream of the Phu Ninh Reservoir... Read more

Fighting to save Pu Mat

July 3, 2009  . Filed under News, Sci-Tech

Fighting to save Pu Mat

LookAtVietnam – Efforts need to be stepped up to protect the UNESCO recognised Pu Mat National Park, which has long been exploited by illegal loggers, said Nguyen Van Minh, deputy director of the park. The Pu Mat National Park. (Photo: http://www.moitruongdulich.vn)Efforts need to be stepped up to protect the UNESCO recognised Pu Mat National Park, which... Read more

Plunder of central, southern nature reserves continues

June 23, 2009  . Filed under News, Social

Plunder of central, southern nature reserves continues

A section of forest that was damaged by illegal loggers in Ca Mau Cape biosphere reserve in the eponymous province Illegal logging in protective forests in the Central Highlands and a biosphere reserve in the southern province of Ca Mau have increased, park rangers said Tuesday. Several cases of illegal logging in... Read more

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