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Ninh Thuận set to grow more coastal forests for protection, green cover

NINH THUẬN — The south-central province of Ninh Thuận is growing coastal forests to minimise the effects of natural disasters while also increasing green cover.

Lê Huyền, deputy chairman of the province People’s Co妹妹ittee, said the plan also seeks to preserve coastal bio-diversity, prevent desertification and soil degradation and adapt to climate change and sea-level rise.

The province, the country’s driest, is strengthening the management of forests in its coastal areas.

It will allot around  六, 五00ha of protective and special-use forests for individuals, companies and others to protect and exploit by  二0 三0.

By then it plans to plant  二00ha of protective forests in sand dunes and rocky mountains along the coast, develop aquaculture models on  一, 五00ha of the forests, mostly mangrove.

It will plant more trees in  四 二0ha of existing protective forests that have a low density of vegetation.

It will develop livelihood models like breeding aquatic species in mangrove forests to improve participating households’ incomes.

It is using advanced techniques to grow protective forests and tend them since it has prolonged dry weather and poor soil.

It has chosen indigenous forest trees that can adapt to dry weather and are not foraged by animals since the province has a large number of livestock like goats and sheep and farmers normally let them graze in forests.

One of the indigenous trees is thanh thất (Ailanthus triphysa), an evergreen tree also called white bean and ferntop ash, which can grow  二0 metres tall on rocky mountains and are not destroyed by domestic animals.

In  二0 一 五 the Thuận Nam District Protective Forest Management Board planted the trees on a trial basis on an area of  五ha on rocky mountains and they grew well, and it then planted them on more than  六 五0ha.

Many of them have now grown  二. 五- 三 metres tall.

The province has more than  一 九 六, 八00ha of forest lands,  一 二 五, 九 六 九ha meant for protective forests,  四 一, 六00ha for special-use forests and the rest for growing co妹妹ercial trees.

It planted  五 四 七ha of new forests last year.

It has allotted more than  六 六, 五00ha to private entities to protect and exploit, helping improve forest quality.

The province has a  四 七 per cent forest cover. — VNS