Forest fire prevention and fighting involves close coordination between forces and localities

On June 7, in Dau Tieng district, the Provincial Steering Committee for urgent issues in forest protection, fire prevention and fighting, and environmental incident response held a conference to summarize forest management protection and fire prevention management in 2023, the first 6 months of 2024; set forth directions and tasks for the last 6 months of 2024.

Representatives of Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development award certificates of merit to groups making outstanding achievements in fire prevention and fighting work.

In 2023 and the first 6 months of 2024, fire prevention and fighting work always had active and close coordination between forest rangers, police, military and grassroots authorities in inspecting and guiding forest owners to build and organize the implementation of fire prevention and control plans. Forest rangers coordinated with units and forest owners to stably manage and protect 10,674.27 hectares of forest and forestry land; did not let serious and large violations of forestry laws occur in the province.

From 2023, there have been 3 forest management units approved and implementing sustainable forest management plans with a total area of 6,236.07 hectares; continued to zone and promote regeneration and restoration of 1,808.85 hectares of natural forest; Along with that, reforestation on the exploited areas contributes to improving the ability to protect the environment and other values of the forest. Binh Duong province has a total area of forests and forestry land of 10,674.27 hectares, of which the forested area is 9,865.38 hectares, the non-forested area is 809.89 hectares...

On this occasion, many groups and individuals were awarded certificates of merit by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development for their outstanding achievements in forest fire prevention and fighting work.

Reported by Thoai Phuong - Translated by Ngoc Huynh

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