Environment and natural resources
Forests and forestry
Lao NA queries govt plan to return forest cover to 70%
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The National Assembly has queried the government’s plan to return the country’s forest cover to 70 per cent by 2020 after observing a huge loss of forested areas over past decades.Large trees have been felled and protected areas intruded upon and ...
Somsack Pongkhao
http://annx.asianews.network/content/lao-na-queries-govt-plan-return-forest-cover-70-98314
White charcoal makers plant more trees in Laos to boost exports
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The White Charcoal Producers for Export Group (WPEG) is working with the government and local communities on a project to plant Cratexylum formosum (mai tiew) saplings in some of the country’s least developed regions in the hope it will help boost trade and ...
Sangkhomsay Bubphanouvong
http://annx.asianews.network/content/white-charcoal-makers-plant-more-trees-boost-exports-98245
Biodiversity project supports Lao National Arbour Day
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB)-funded Biodiversity Conservation Corridors (BCC) project has provided 10,000 seedlings to help the government fulfil its ambition to extend the number of green spaces in Vientiane this year.Some of the seedlings were planted in the Botanical Garden ...
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http://annx.asianews.network/content/biodiversity-project-supports-national-arbour-day-97836
Arbour Day bolsters Lao government’s reforestation drive
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Party and state leaders and members of the public planted thousands of saplings on National Arbour Day on Saturday, giving a huge boost to the government’s effort to increase forest cover to 70 per cent by 2020.Vice President Phankham Viphavanh, other ...
Souksakhone Vaenkeo
http://annx.asianews.network/content/arbour-day-bolsters-lao-government%E2%80%99s-reforestation-drive-97746
Laos' 2020 target of 70 percent forest cover unlikely to be met: Report
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Forest cover is expected to increase to 68 percent of the country’s land area by 2020, slightly below the target of 70 percent, the latest report on the matter suggests.A 2015 survey revealed that forest cover stood at 58 percent. With an ...
Souksakhone Vaenkeo
http://annx.asianews.network/content/2020-target-70-cent-forest-cover-unlikely-be-met-report-97550
Vientiane Capital to plant trees on 300 hectares this year
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Vientiane is making a strong contribution to the country’s efforts to restore forest cover to 70 percent of the total land area by the end of next year, a forestry official has said.Director of Vientiane’s Department of Agriculture and Forestry, Dr Sayla ...
Somxay Sengdara
Champassak preparing to go green on Arbor Day in Laos
CHAMPASSAK, Laos (Vientiane Times/ANN) – To rehabilitate the environment and increase forest cover to 70 percent of land by 2020, Champassak provincial authorities are planning to grow trees on 950 hectares this year.Deputy Director of the province’s Agriculture and Forestry Department, Mr Kanha Keobualapha, said ...
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Vientiane City to have 1.3 million more trees
Vientiane could have more than 1.3 million new trees this year as the capital carries out a plan to establish itself as a green city by extending tree cover at numerous sites. Director of the Vientiane Agriculture and Forestry Department, Dr Lasay Nouanthasing, said last week ...
Souksamai Boulom
Attapeu announces auction of confiscated timber
ATTAPEU, Laos (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Attapeu province has announced the auction of timber seized by timber committees under the departments of Industry and Commerce.It has invited furniture associations, timber processing factories, furniture factories and timber businesses throughout the country to take part in the auction.More ...
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Laos supports Huaygnang-Dongmakkhay forest restoration
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The signing of a funding agreement took place last week in Vientiane between the Environment Protection Fund, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry’s Forestry Department, and the Ministry of Natural Resources’ Department of Planning and Cooperation.The government has authorised about 2.4 ...
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