Decree on the Protection Forest No. 333/PM, dated 19 July 2010
关于防护林的法令 第333/总理号，2010年7月19日
ດຳລັດ ວ່າດ້ວຍ ປ່າປ້ອງກັນ ເລກທີ 333/ນຍ, ລົງວັນທີ 19 ກໍລະກົດ 2010
Summary
This Decree stipulates principles, regulations, and measures for the sustainable management, protection, development, and utilization of protection forests, aiming to maintain the fertility of protection forests and forest land, safeguard environmental protection, preserve water sources, prevent soil erosion, improve people's livelihoods, and promote national economic and social development. Protection forests cover areas such as water source origins, riverbanks, and roadsides, with a total area of 8.2 million hectares, and define relevant terminology.
Articles
Article 1
Article 1. Objectives
This Decree defines the principles, the procedures, and the measures on the management, the
protection and conversation, the development, and the sustainable use of the protection forest,
with the aims of bringing the richness to the protection forests and the protection forestry lands,
ensuring the protection of the environment, the water sources, the soil erosion, and safeguarding
the soil quality the strategic national defense and public security forests, including the
restoration, the encouragement, the monitoring and assessment of the laws in order to contribute
to the improvement of the living standards of the people and the national socio-economic
development.
Article 2
Article 2. The Protection Forests
The Protection Forests are the forests and the forestry lands which are located in the areas of the
water sources, watershed areas, wetland forest, and river bank’s forest, road side forest, including
the forest in and around the town, Municipality or outskirts of city, village’s sacred forests and
cemeteries. The protection forests have the total area of 8,200,000 hectares (eight millions and
two hundred thousands), which are determined for the purpose of protection of the watershed
areas, the natural environments, the soil erosion, natural disasters, strategic points for the
national defense-public security and other types of forests as determination.
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