Guidelines for Nurturing Natural Forests

Accordingly, Circular 29 stipulates the subjects of nurturing natural forests as follows:

- For protective forests and special-use forests (except for strictly protected zones), these are rehabilitated forests with trees reaching a height that contributes to the forest canopy with a quantity of 400 trees/ha or more or purpose-regenerated trees with a height of over 1 meter with a quantity of 500 trees/ha or more. The trees and purpose-regenerated trees are relatively evenly distributed across the entire area, where bamboo forests have a coverage rate of over 60% and 200 clumps/ha or more, relatively evenly distributed across the entire area;- For production forests, these are rehabilitated forests meeting the objective of business production with a number of high-quality trees exceeding 500 trees/ha or purpose-regenerated trees reaching a height of over 1 meter with a quantity exceeding 1000 trees/ha. The trees and purpose-regenerated trees are relatively evenly distributed across the entire area, where bamboo forests have a coverage rate of over 70%, with over 200 clumps/ha relatively evenly distributed across the entire area.

The content of natural forest nurturing measures as stipulated in Circular 29 is as follows:

- For timber forests belonging to protective forests and special-use forests: perform the removal of vines, do not cut shrubs, fresh carpets; cut twisted, diseased, broken, or truncated trees, retain healthy growing trees, ensuring a minimum canopy density of 0.6;

Note the number of cuts from 1 to 2 times, with an interval of 3 to 7 years between two cuts;

- For timber forests belonging to production forests: perform the removal of vines of no economic value, shrubs suppressing regenerated trees; cut twisted, diseased, broken, or truncated trees, retain healthy growing and developing trees without diseases;

Note the number of cuts from 1 to 3 times, with an interval of 3 to 7 years between two cuts, within the period from 1/2 to 2/3 of the exploitation cycle; ensure a minimum canopy density of 0.4;

- For bamboo forests, perform the removal of vines, shrubs overwhelming the bamboo; cut truncated, smashed, or old bamboo; do not harvest bamboo shoots during the nurturing period.

See details at Circular 29/2018/TT-BNNPTNT effective from January 1, 2019.

-Thao Uyen-

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