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Chau Ma’s requests for land for cultivation turned down whilst rubber companies get the green light for plantations on primary forest
Date: 01/10/2014
On 29th September, VTV1, as part of its “Tiêu Điểm”, or “Hot Issues” nightly programme, showed the plight of the Chau Ma ethnic minorities and the destruction of their ancestral forest by logging and rubber companies. They ...
Che Dong - local knowledge of indigenous peoples in Lang Son in using forest product
Date: 10/09/2014
Che Dong (Forest Tea) is an ecological product produced in a traditional way by the Tay and San Chi Healers Group of Dong Thang commune, Dinh Lap district, Lang Son province. This Tea is made up of a combination of the Voi (Cleistocalyx ...
Workshop on customary law-based and community-based forest and forestland allocation in Phin Ngan commune, Lao Cai province
Date: 10/09/2014
On August 8, 2014, Bat Xat DPC in coodination with Lao Cai Forestry Department and SPERI organised workshop on Customary-law based and Community-based forest and forestland allocation. This workshop is a starting point for different stakeholders before implementing the extened project ...
Shock to see illegally-built road for timber exploitation in Na Tang village, Binh Xa commune, Dinh Lap district of Lang Son province
Date: 27/06/2014
Na Tang village is located in the border area, 6 km away from Vietnam – China, Ban Chat border gate and 20 km away from the Dinh Lap district center. There are 45 households of 200 people of Tay and Nung ethnic minorities living in the village. About 100 ha of primary forest ...
Replacing boundary markers and planting native trees to protect forestland of Tai ethnic minority villagers in Hanh Dich commune
Date: 06/05/2014
The Tai community has faced challenges coming from Que Phong Rubber Company whom has cleared the forest areas bare and planted rubber trees in the allocated community forestland areas. One of the ways to protecting their community rights over forestland, the Tai communities have decided ...
Issues facing the Livelihood and Culture Spaces of the Co Tu Ethnic in Quang Nam Province
Date: 24/04/2014
After 10 years of policy implementation, Quang Nam is one of the most proactive provinces in Vietnam achieving great efforts. About 249 communities were allocated with over 160 thousand hectares of forest and forestland. Yet, due to various reasons, such allocated forest and ...
Thai Ethnic Minority villagers see justice done and take back their land
Date: 22/04/2014
It’s early in the morning of April 17th 2014, and all the villagers are ready. They have collected indigenous Trau (Vernicia fordii) wildlings for re-afforestation and prepared new boundary markers to replace those removed by the company. They intend to take back ...
Lang Son Province approves Minh Son and Dong Thang for Community-Based Biodiversity Conservation
Date: 18/04/2014
December 12th, 2013, the People's Council of Lang Son Province promulgated Resolution No. 132/2013/NQ-HDND on the approval of a Community-Based Biodiversity Conservation Plan in the locality until the year 2020, of which Minh Son Commune (Huu Lung District) and Dong ...