More Chinese businesses have set up wooden furniture processing factories in Vietnam order to take advantage of preferential tariffs importers are offering to Vietnamese exports.

VietNamNet Bridge - The State has allocated forestland to private enterprises for management in an aim to improve protection of the forests. However, more forested areas have been devastated and more murder cases discovered.

VietNamNet Bridge - Rapid deforestation has been slowly wiping out the traditional cultural of ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands.

The deforestation cases found recently show problems at supervising agencies.

The southern province of Binh Phuoc will stop clearing natural forest land for the planting of industrial trees with high economic value, the provincial authority has announced.

VietNamNet Bridge - The figures released by the General Department of Customs (GDC) show significant problems for Vietnam’s rubber industry: the more it exports, the less money it gets.

VietNamNet Bridge - Forested areas are protected in a small village in Phong Dien district in Thua Thien-Hue thanks to a special agreement of village elders.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities and resident in central Quang Binh Province have voiced concerns over serious deforestation to a natural forest area upstream of the Rao Nan River.

 VietNamNet Bridge - According to authorities in the Central Highlands, loggers are operating in a more organized way and are ready to fight against authorities if they are detected.

VietNamNet Bridge - Thousands of hectares of forests in Dak Lak province have been cut down to make room for hydropower plants, threatening the survival of forests in the Central Highlands. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The massive conversion of forests into the land areas for rubber, industrial crop cultivation and hydropower plant development led to the loss of 500,000 hectares of  natural forests in the last 10 years.

VietNamNet Bridge - The vast forests in the Central Highlands are still being cut down though local authorities have vowed to prevent illegal loggers.

VietNamNet Bridge - Why can a lot of hydropower projects obtain licenses from agencies even though the power plants leaf to deforestation, violate forest protection laws and damage biodiversity?

VietNamNet Bridge - The forestland in the districts of Thanh Son, Thanh Thuy and Tam Nong of the midland province of Phu Tho has been seriously damaged. 

VietNamNet Bridge - More and more pine trees have been felled in the central province of Dak Nong, while the local authorities still have not found a proper solution to stop deforestation.

VietNamNet Bridge - The protective forests in Kon Tum province have been ravaged in recent years.

 Authorities of Quang Ngai Province have asked the Government to suspend operations of a hydropower plant worth trillions of VND for illegal deforestation.

VietNamNet Bridge - Forested land is under the strict control of six powerful agencies, but land continues to be cleared to make room for resorts.

  Nearly 11,000 ha of natural forest which was allocated to local people in the Central Highlands Province of Dak Lak has suffered serious deforestation, said the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

VietNamNet Bridge - Local authorities and investors who are developing road and hydropower projects have promised to plant forests to offset the trees they fell. However, they have failed to keep their word.