On July 19, reporters of Lao Dong Newspaper recorded that a strip of casuarina forest along the coast stretching for many kilometers from Loc Ha commune to Co Dam commune was broken after storm No. 5 and storm No. 10 in 2025 and has not yet been replanted with new forest trees.
Many fallen forest trees still have dry trunks standing alone in the sky. Many places that were previously green protection casuarina forests are now just vacant land.
The situation of coastal casuarina forests being broken due to the 2025 storm has caused many villages to lose protective forest belts, causing people to worry as the rainy and storm season approaches.
Ms. Le Thi Phuong (61 years old, residing in Yen Diem village, Loc Ha commune) said that her family and hundreds of households in the village live near the sea, previously there was a casuarina forest along the coast to shelter from the wind, so it was somewhat less damaged by the storm. However, because the casuarina forest strip has been massively broken in 2 storms in 2025, from now on when storms come, there will be no more forest to shelter and protect.
We hope that functional sectors will soon organize replacement forest planting in the forest strips broken by the 2025 storm so that later forest trees will develop to shelter from the wind and protect villages," Ms. Phuong shared.
In Co Dam commune, many people are also in the same worried mood, hoping that the government and functional sectors will soon organize the replanting of coastal casuarina forests that were broken in the 2025 storm.
Mr. Le Van Han - Vice Chairman of Loc Ha Commune People's Committee said that 2 major storms in 2025 caused a large area of coastal casuarina forest in the locality to collapse, including both protection forests and production forests.
To date, the locality has not received information or plans to implement replacement afforestation.
Also according to Mr. Han, new afforestation is also related to the organization of liquidation of forests broken due to storms by forest owners, and then proposing replacement afforestation projects.
Mr. Nguyen Van Tuan - Chairman of Co Dam Commune People's Committee informed that in the locality, there are dozens of hectares of forest broken due to the 2025 storm, including both protection forests and production forests.
The locality will coordinate with the Hong Linh Protection Forest Management Board to propose replacing forest planting for forest trees to develop, promote protection and wind and storm prevention in the coastal area," Mr. Tuan said.
Previously, Lao Dong Newspaper had articles "Slow liquidation of hundreds of hectares of fallen and broken forests due to storms in 2025" and the article "Slow liquidation of fallen and broken forests due to storms, concerns about causing risk of forest fires" reflecting the impacts and concerns from the slow liquidation of fallen and broken forests due to storms in Ha Tinh.
The content of the article also informs that currently the Forest Management Boards in Ha Tinh have completed procedures to deploy the liquidation of hundreds of hectares of fallen and broken forest due to the 2025 storm.
According to the approval of Ha Tinh Provincial People's Committee, liquidation will be organized: 510.6 ha of forest managed by the Nam Ha Tinh Protection Forest Management Board; more than 159 ha managed by the Ke Go Nature Reserve Management Board; more than 87 ha managed by the Huong Khe Protection Forest Management Board.
The Hong Linh Protection Forest Management Board plans to propose to the Ha Tinh Provincial People's Committee to approve the liquidation of about 185 hectares of forest damaged by the storm.
