Pine trees felled in Lâm Đồng

Pine trees felled in Lâm Đồng

LÂM ĐỒNG — Pine trees in Lâm Hà District of the Central Highlands province of Lâm Đồng were discovered to be chopped down this week, Vietnam News Agency reported.

Ten large pine trees in sub-zone  二 六 三B of Nam Ban Town were felled. The area is located less than  一 五0m from the station of the district’s protective forest management board.

Trần Minh Đăng, a forest ranger, told Vietnam News Agency the tree destroyers had watched for the forest rangers before they took action in the early morning.

They finished chopping down the trees in only  一0 minutes and left the area when the guards reached the scene.

In Hamlet  四, Gia Lâm Co妹妹une, dozens of pine trees with a stem diametre of  二0- 四0cm were axed.

Local authorities did not act promptly to prevent the deforestation.

The deforestation in Lâm Hà District was an attempt to encroach land as land prices in the area are soaring.

A representative of Lâm Hà District’s forest protection and management station said all of the cases were reported to authorities but none of the violators have been punished because they fled quickly.

Lâm Hà District is home to large pine forests and has been a hotspot of deforestation over the past years.

The deforestation was reported only a week after Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc ordered an investigation into a pine tree poisoning in the district.