Vietnam reported 14.6 million hectares of forest land with a coverage rate estimated at some 42% last year, but the ratio of primeval forest area in the country accounted for only 0.25%,

Police in Dak Lak Province are investigating the forest destruction problem in the area.

A large area of forest at the Ea So Natural Reserve in Dak Lak and Gia Lai provinces have been destroyed by illegal logging activities.

Authorities of the southern central province of Binh Dinh have requested to halt a local wind power project after a large area of forest in the project area was destroyed.

Police in the southern province of Lam Dong have caught a group of people who cut pine trees in Lam Ha District.

Police in Quang Binh Province have launched criminal proceedings against seven people suspected on involvement in a deforestation case discovered at the beginning of March in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dak Glong District People’s Court in Central Highlands province of Dak Nong on Thursday sentenced a former police major to nine months in prison for the crime of forest destruction.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The investigative police of Binh Dinh Province has detained two suspects over a recent destruction of more than 60ha of forest in An Lao District.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The agriculture sector of the central Quang Tri Province on Monday (Aug 8) confirmed deforestation of a protected forest in Vinh Linh District.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of hectares of forests in the central province of Dak Nong have been eliminated due to a policy that allows investors to lease forest land.

Vast areas of hardwood forestland in Moc Chau of Son La province have been lost in the northwestern part of the country because the wood is being used to make nghien  (Burretiodendron hsienmu) chopping boards.