Achievements in forest protection and development at Pu Huong Nature Reserve Management Board

Patrolling and protecting Pu Huong Nature Reserve. Photo: VT

Efforts to protect developmentforest resource values

Pu Huong Nature Reserve (BTTN) was established on January 25, 2002. From 2002 to 2008, Pu Huong Nature Reserve Management Board was a unit under the Nghe An Provincial Forest Protection Department. From 2008 to 2020, Pu Huong Nature Reserve Management Board was a unit under the Nghe An Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. On November 12, 2020, Nghe An Provincial People's Committee issued Decision No. 4042 QD/UB on merging Quy Hop Protection Forest Management Board into Pu Huong Nature Reserve Management Board.

Over the past 20 years, the Management Board of Pu Huong Nature Reserve has performed well many key tasks, including forest management and protection. The Management Board has organized 1,690 legal propaganda sessions, held 70 buffer zone conferences to discuss forest management and protection. Built 75 boundary markers, 9 signposts, and 15 propaganda boards.

Pu Huong Forest still has many rare big trees. Photo: VT.

Through patrolling, checking forests and receiving reports from the people, Pu Huong Forest Protection Department has discovered and handled 858 violations of illegal exploitation, transportation of forest products and deforestation for farming, confiscating more than 2,570 m³wood of all kinds, more than 23 tons of charcoal, 6 individuals and 86 kg of wild animals and many tools and machines. Administrative fines and sale of confiscated forest products paid to the State budget more than 9.8 billion VND, criminal prosecution of 3 cases including 5 subjects. In recent years, Pu Huong Nature Reserve has also done a good job in forest fire prevention and control, in the past 20 years there have been no forest fires in the Reserve.

The Management Board of Pu Huong Nature Reserve has also implemented and cooperated with other units and organizations such as the Forestry Resources and Environment Center (FREC) - Forest Planning and Investigation Institute (FIPI), Faculty of Biology - Vinh University, Vietnam Institute of Medicinal Materials, Institute of Forest Ecology and Environment (IFEE)... organizations, domestic and international scientists to carry out scientific research programs, collect specimens of flora and fauna for research purposes. At the same time, coordinate and implement project programs aimed at socio-economic development for local people, aiming to contribute to sustainable hunger eradication and poverty reduction associated with the goal of forest management and protection.

At Pu Huong Nature Reserve Management Board, there are still some rare langur species. Photo: VT.

Over the past 20 years, the Management Board of Pu Huong Nature Reserve has organized the allocation of 114,227 hectares of forest to people in the buffer zone, with a total budget of more than 29.74 billion VND to support people contracted to protect forests and implemented the policy of supporting production forest planting according to Decision 147/2007/QD-TTg for 2,329 hectares, with a total budget of 5.34 billion VND.

With such tireless efforts, the collective of cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers at Pu Huong Nature Reserve Management Board were honored to receive many Certificates of Merit and Certificates of Merit from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Forestry Department, the Vietnam General Confederation of Civil Servants, the People's Committee of Nghe An province, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Nghe An, the Forestry Sub-Department of Nghe An, the Quy Hop District Party Committee, and the Quy Hop District Youth Union.

Continue to promote valuesfrom the forest

Sharing about the tasks in the coming time, the leaders of Pu Huong Nature Reserve Management Board said that they will continue to strengthen the staff team in both quality and quantity, build effective forest management stations, promote patrolling, inspection, forest protection management at the root, protect intact 40,223.55 hectares of special-use forests, 6,080.9 hectares of protective forests, and develop well 207,813 hectares of assigned production forests. Promote the application of science and technology in monitoring forest developments, patrolling, inspecting, and protecting forests.

Call for and mobilize investment capital to implement forest protection management, implement protection contracts for forests bordering buffer zones and non-critical forests. Regularly provide training and professional development; train, retrain, plan appropriately, rejuvenate the team, and increase local staff. Promote scientific research and gradually exploit tourism services in the assigned forest areas.

International scientists regularly visit Pu Huong Nature Reserve Management Board to conduct scientific research. Photo: VT

Regarding scientific research and international cooperation, arrange and use a team of scientific staff to exploit and use modern equipment proficiently, apply it to practical work. Promote the implementation of approved programs and projects; Strengthen international cooperation activities; Coordinate with research institutes and universities to carry out applied research programs to preserve and develop ecosystems, develop gene sources of valuable flora and fauna species to combat species degradation, and medicinal value.

Speed ​​up the progress of approval and implementation of Environmental Education projects and other programs and projects; improve the quality and effectiveness of programs and projects. Cooperate in investment, exploit capital from investment projects of domestic and foreign organizations and individuals to support funding for implementing environmental education programs and activities, gradually develop ecotourism. Build and develop Pu Huong Nature Reserve to truly deserve to be one of the important core areas of the Western Nghe An World Biosphere Reserve.

The Management Board of Pu Huong Nature Reserve today is more spacious and impressive. Among the civil servants, public employees, officers and forest rangers who have been with us since its establishment, there are now more mature people, holding important positions in the forestry sector as well as other sectors in the province. We always remember and are grateful to the previous generations who have contributed to building and consolidating the development of Pu Huong Nature Reserve to achieve what it is today.

Forest protection and management work at Pu Huong Nature Reserve Management Board is always focused on. Photo: VT

The 20th anniversary of the establishment of Pu Huong Nature Reserve Management Board is also an opportunity for us to review the beautiful memories of a time of hardship, building and managing the forest, consolidating and developing the unit. It is also an opportunity to express gratitude to the agencies, units and individuals who have shared and helped Pu Huong Nature Reserve Management Board to perform well the tasks of managing the forest, conserving biodiversity and complying with the law in the fields of forest management, forest development, forest protection and forest product management...

The achievements in the past 20 years in all fields have affirmed the sense of responsibility of the Pu Huong Nature Reserve Management Board through the periods, the determination and high efforts, the solidarity and unanimity of the staff, civil servants, public employees and workers. At the same time, the support, attention and cooperation of all levels and sectors from the Central to the local level, domestic and foreign organizations, and scientists have created the motivation and confidence for the Management Board of the Nature Reserve to achieve results and promote the cause of conservation and promote the values ​​of the forest.

The collective of leaders, workers and civil servants of Pu Huong Nature Reserve Management Board vows to promote democracy, solidarity, and unanimously overcome all difficulties and challenges to excellently complete all assigned tasks, and strive further to build Pu Huong Nature Reserve to develop on par with other National Parks and Nature Reserves in the country.

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