On April 10, the People's Committee of Quang Tri province confirmed that it had established a Steering Committee to handle overlapping and encroached forest and forestry land areas at the Special Use and Protection Forest Management Boards.
The Steering Committee is headed by Mr. Ha Sy Dong - Acting Chairman of the People's Committee of Quang Tri province, along with leaders of departments such as the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Department of Finance, the Provincial Police...
After establishment, the Steering Committee is responsible for directing and organizing the implementation of the plan issued by the People's Committee of Quang Tri province on handling overlapping and encroachment on forests and forestry land at the Special-use and Protection Forest Management Boards in Quang Tri province.
The above plan was issued by the People's Committee of Quang Tri Province on February 28, 2025 with content until 2030, it will definitely handle the situation of overlapping and invasive more than 5,300 hectares of forest and forestry land. In particular, from now until 2027, the cultivation object is over 1,296 ha of unknown owners, handing over 2,643ha overlapping to the locality to manage and recover about 1,500ha, which has identified the violators. By 2030, an additional 2,675 ha will recover after the establishment of forest management boards and handle nearly 23ha being accepted by the authorities.
Previously, Lao Dong Newspaper had many articles and information at special-use forest management boards and protective forest management boards in Quang Tri province, up to 5,342 hectares of forest and forestry land were overlapped and encroached. Of which, Huong Hoa - Dakrong Protective Forest Management Board has the largest overlapping and encroached area with 2,718 hectares, followed by Quang Tri Province Special-use Forest Management Board with 2,219 hectares.
The reason for the situation of encroachment, overlapping forest land, is when establishing forest management boards, the area received from large forestry farms, stretching on many administrative boundaries of localities, the measurement of handover, plugging the boundaries in the field has not been implemented specifically. Besides, forest and forestry management maps are not clear, some delivery areas on the file are not handed over. In particular, forest owners have not yet developed specific plans and plans to plug in the field boundaries; The management, protection, inspection and supervision have not been regular, so it has not promptly detected, prevented and handled acts of encroaching forest land.
After discovering encroached forests and forestry land, the authorities of Quang Tri province have implemented measures to handle and reclaim it, but have not achieved the desired results.
