National Strategy on Biodiversity Introduced

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment recently organised a conference in Hanoi to introduce the National Strategy on Biodiversity and contributed opinions to biodiversity preservation in the country.

 

Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Bui Cach Tuyen, said Vietnam is one of the five countries most vulnerable to climate change, which critically threatens its fast-degenerating biodiversity.

 

The strategy, which is set to be implemented through 2020, with a vision to 2030, was approved by the Prime Minister in Decision 1250/QD-TTg, aiming to achieve its goals of increasing the quality and the area of protected natural ecosystems. The area of landlocked natural reserves will account for 9 percent of the territory, while marine reserves will covers 0.24 percent of the sea by 2020. The strategy targets to expand forest coverage at 45 percent, recover 15 percent of degenerated natural forest ecosystems. The strategy also aims to enhance the quality and population of endangered and rare species, keep and maintain endangered, rare native genetic resources (animals, plants and microorganisms), and prevent land depression and erosion.