The Central Highlands
province of Lam Dong is designing projects to preserve biodiversity and
create protection corridors around sensitive ecosystems in need of
conservation as part of its biodiversity action plan for 2015-2020.
The action plan focuses on effective management, conservation and
sustainable development, including communication and educational
campaigns to increase communities’ awareness of protecting and
sustainably using biodiversity in line with socio-economic development.
The province will also increase communities’ role in managing and developing biological resources.
A number of projects will be implemented with support from the State,
non-governmental organisations and local authorities’ fund.
Two
projects to protect and develop the red pine tree, one of the most
valuable medicinal plants in the province, will also be carried out as
part of the action plan. Accordingly, the red pine tree’s distribution
will be researched and mapped out, natural regeneration will be
fostered, and seed germination and protection measures will be
implemented.
Lam Dong is the most biodiversity-rich province in
the Central Highlands and south-central region. It comprises 512,000ha
of natural forest and 68.8ha of planted forest, which are home to a
number of rare flora and fauna species listed in Vietnam’s Red Book.-VNA