Ca Mau has more than 145,000 hectares of forest. Since 2010, the province has lost about 400 - 500 hectares of forest due to landslides each year. Thanks to the implementation of response solutions, dangerous landslides have been embanked, caused by silting, and the area of land has gradually been overcome and some forest areas have been restored.
However, the landslides are still complicated in the East Sea, this area is lost to erosion, making it difficult to restore forests.
Ca Mau has Ca Mau Cape Biosphere Reserve including: Ca Mau Cape National Park, with an area of 42,000 hectares, along with the mangrove forest of the West coast of Ca Mau province and the U Minh Ha mangrove forest area with an area of about 42,000 hectares.
To restore forests, the Management Board of Special-use Forests and Coastal Protection Forests (under the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Ca Mau province) coordinated with the International Union for Conservation of Nature to conduct a survey and assess the current status of coastal protection forest planting and restoration in Vinh Hau commune, Ca Mau province.
This activity is within the framework of the project "Widening the population of nature-based solutions through mangrove forest restoration in Ca Mau province" implemented by the International Union for Conservation of Nature from 2023-2027.
The project will replant 160,000 mangrove trees, promote the practice of aquaculture friendly to mangrove forests, thereby supporting the integrated forest shrimp farming model. By July 2025, the project had planted more than 80,000 trees on an area of 18 hectares in Vinh Hau commune. The planting locations include shrimp ponds combined with mangrove forests and coastal protection forests that have degraded.
The main plant is Dung - a mangrove that adapts well to the coastal brackish water environment, with a solid root system that helps retain alluvium.
The new planting of 80,000 trees brings many benefits, increasing the resilience of aquaculture models by filtering water, improving water quality and creating diverse habitats for aquatic species.
Ca Mau is making efforts to restore forests affected by increasingly complex climate change.