VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of 20-50 year old pine trees have been illegally cut down or poisoned with chemicals in the Central Highland province of Lam Dong.

VietNamNet Bridge - Pine trees in Gia Lai Province are pierced with holes so they will die slowly. Then the trees are cut down to clear land for growing pepper and lemon.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 100 yews (Glyptostrobus pensilis) in the central province of Dak Lak are dying but scientists say they are still trying to choose the correct way to save them.

The crops have been misled, the climate has changed with out-of-season fits of cold and heat. People now pay a heavy price for their activities of destroying pine trees.

VietNamNet Bridge – The rapid urbanization speed in Da Lat, the city of thousands of pine trees, plus the serious deforestation, have both put the forests in agony.

VietNamNet Bridge – The pine forests in both the inner city and suburbs of the famous tourism land of Da Lat have been killed because people need land areas for their houses.