Launching submerged forest plantation in Mekong Delta region
The Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and Ca Mau provincial People’s Committee co-organised a ceremony to launch a submerged forest plantation campaign in the Mekong Delta provinces.
As part of activities to respond to the movement of mangrove planting and coastal protection nationwide, the ceremony took place in Tran Van Thoi district, Ca Mau province, on July 20, featuring the participation of representatives of some ministries, leaders of People’s Committees of some Mekong Delta provinces, a number of international organisations and many local people and students turned out in coastal communes in Tran Van Thoi district.
Speaking at the ceremony, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Hoang Hiep, emphasized that over the past years, with complicated and extreme incidents related to natural disasters, climate change, sea levels rising, coastal areas of Vietnam are strongly affected by the sea. Statistics show that Vietnam lose about 300 hectares of coastal land every year, greatly affecting people’s livelihoods and the economies of regions across the country.
