No construction work has followed the decision, and the issue went largely unnoticed until August, when Trinh Le Nguyen, executive director of the environmental NGO People and Nature Reconciliation (PanNature), began writing about it on Facebook.
In a post dated Aug. 11, Nguyen noted that Tien Hai is part of the broader Red River Delta Biosphere Reserve. Established in 2004, the biosphere reserve spans 137,261 hectares (339,179 acres), including a core area, buffer zone and transition zone across terrestrial and marine areas.
“The core area, the heart of the biosphere reserve, includes Tien Hai Nature Reserve and Xuan Thuy National Park,” Nguyen wrote.
PanNature and VIFORA sign MoU on Forestry Cooperation
On March 25, 2021, People and Nature Reconciliation (PanNature) and the Vietnam Forest Owners Association (VIFORA) signed an MoU on strategic cooperation in the upcoming time.
From 2017 to 2020, PanNature and VIFORA had cooperated in some activities such as jointly contributing recommendations to forestry policies; organizing workshops on community forests and community tenure rights… Following this aforementioned collaboration, both sides committed to further cooperation on the concerned issues in forestry such as forest-base-community livelihoods and forest conservation.
In 2021, PanNature and VIFORA committed to collaborating on the following main areas:
- Contribute recommendations on forestry policies.
- Co-organize workshops and events on forest governance issues
- Co-organize capacity-building activities for PanNature and VIFORA, for non-state organizations, and communities
- Co-conduct field investigation trips and field surveys
- Co-develop new programs and projects
The two sides agreed to cooperate with mutual respect and collective efforts to contribute practical values in the forestry sector for the sustainable development of community and natural resources conservation.
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