Illegally logging or exploiting forests is strictly prohibited in Vietnam

Specifically, according to the Law on forest protection and development 2004 of Vietnam, prohibited acts include:

1. Illegally logging or exploiting forests.

2. Illegally hunting, shooting, catching, trapping, caging or slaughtering forest animals.

3. Illegally collecting specimens in forests.

4. Illegally destroying forest resources or ecosystems.

5. Violating regulations on forest fire prevention and fighting.

6. Violating regulations on prevention and elimination of organisms harmful to forests.

7. Illegally encroaching upon, appropriating, or changing use purposes of, forests.

8. Illegally exploiting forest landscapes and environment as well as forestry services.

9. Illegally transporting, processing, advertising, trading in, using, consuming, storing, exporting or importing forest plants and animals.

10. Abusing one’s positions and/or powers to act against the regulations on forest management, protection and development.

11. Grazing cattle in the strictly-protected zones of special-use forests, newly-planted forests or coppices.

12. Raising or releasing animals or planting trees, which are of species other than the native ones in special-use forests without permission of competent State agencies.

13. Illegally exploiting biological resources, mineral resources and other natural resources; altering natural landscapes and developments of forests; exerting adverse impacts on the natural life of forest wildlife; illegally bringing toxic chemicals, explosives or inflammables into forests.

14. Illegally assigning, leasing forests; exchanging, transferring, inheriting, donating, mortgaging, providing guarantee or contributing capital with forest use right value or value of planted production forests.

15. Destroying works in service of forest protection and development.

16. Other acts of harming forest resources and ecosystems.

This is the content specified in Article 12 of the Law on forest protection and development 2004 of Vietnam, effective from April 01, 2005.

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