Proactively prevent "fire"

The province currently has nearly 470,000 hectares of natural forests, over 78,000 hectares of planted forests and nearly 44,000 hectares of planted forest areas. With a forest coverage rate of 68.54% (ranked 2nd in the country), the management, protection, use, development of forests and PCCCR in the province really need the cooperation of the whole community, especially when entering the dry season.

Forest rangers guide forest owners to effectively prevent and control forest fires during the dry season.

Therefore, right from the beginning of the dry season in 2025, the Provincial Forest Protection Department has proactively advised the Provincial People's Committee, the Steering Committee of the Provincial Sustainable Forestry Development Program (PTLNBV), the Department of Agriculture and Environment to direct localities, units, and forest owners to deploy PCCCR work, such as: Strengthening inspection work, guiding forest owners to carry out forest sanitation, treat vegetation to reduce combustible materials before the dry season; repairing and renewing PCCCR works; purchasing additional firefighting equipment and tools; strengthening the Steering Committee of the PTLNBV Program at all levels and consolidating PCCCR shock teams and teams at the grassroots level; developing forest protection (BVR) and PCCCR plans of all levels and forest owners according to the "4 on-site" motto to respond to the risk of forest fires...

Dong Hoi Forest Protection Department uses cameras to support monitoring in forest fire prevention and control work.

Head of Le Thuy Forest Protection Department Pham Van But said: “Taking advantage of favorable weather, from the end of 2024 until now, forest owners who are organizations, households and individuals in the district have proactively treated the ground cover, cleaned the forest, applied controlled pre-burning measures and removed combustible materials from the forest. Up to now, many areas of planted forests that need ground cover treatment in the district have been carried out in accordance with the instructions of specialized agencies. For the remaining areas, the District Forest Protection Department continues to guide forest owners to urgently carry out ground cover treatment and clean the forest when the weather is favorable, ensuring compliance with the requirements on PCCCR. If the weather is hot and sunny with a high risk of forest fires, the unit will request to stop, not to treat the ground cover but to switch to strengthening the management of heat sources and fire sources in the forest and on the forest edge. In addition, the unit instructs forest owners to have a belt separating the ground cover burning area from the flammable forest; have a plan and schedule to choose the time appropriate burning points and arrangement of fire prevention and fighting forces and equipment to ensure safety; absolutely do not let forest cleaning and vegetation treatment cause forest fires.

“In addition to implementing many solutions to proactively prevent forest fires, right from the beginning of the 2025 dry season, Minh Hoa Forest Protection Department has advised the District People's Committee to identify key areas with high risk of forest fires to deploy response solutions during the dry season. For example, the area of planting pine resin from the remaining project 661 capital in the two communes of Hong Hoa and Yen Hoa, with a total area of more than 50 hectares...”, Mr. Nguyen Cong Chung, Head of Minh Hoa District Forest Protection Department added.

Currently, the Provincial Steering Committee for the Program on Forest Protection and Development has directed the Forest Rangers and Forest Protection Forces of forest owners to regularly organize fire patrols, monitor forest fire spots on satellite images and receive fire alarms. During the extremely hot and prolonged days of the dry season in 2025, the functional forces will organize 24/7 duty at watchtowers and in the field in key forest fire areas; at the same time, strengthen inspection and monitoring of forest fires during peak hot days to promptly detect and mobilize forces to extinguish them in time...

Mr. Le Trung Hien, Head of the Department of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation Management, Provincial Forest Protection Department, added that at this time, the Forest Protection force and forest owners are monitoring and updating forest developments; establishing forest management records for forest owners. In addition, the Department has strengthened guidance for localities and units to review and update changes in management owners in the area, build a database on forest monitoring software; promote digital transformation, apply remote sensing technology in monitoring forest resource developments to promptly detect deforestation, forest fires, and illegal forest exploitation to take timely measures to prevent and handle them.

In 2025, Quang Binh strives to manage and protect the existing natural forest area well, conserve biodiversity; prevent deforestation and illegal exploitation of forests; minimize forest fires and damage caused by forest fires; strive to reduce by 10-15% the number of law violations in the forestry sector and reduce damage caused by forest fires compared to 2024.

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