Preventing fires in dry seasonVietNamNet Bridge – The Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) provinces are taking measures to ensure that 2.56 million hectares of forests are not affected by fire during the peak of the dry season. Authorities at localities are trying to raise public awareness about forest protection by disseminating information to local residents. Ha Cong Tai, head of the region’s Forest Protection Division, said that slash-and-burn farming activities could become a source of fire. The provinces have set up Steering Boards for Forest Fire Control to deal with fires in the dry season, he said. By the end of March, six forest fires had been recorded in the Central Highlands provinces, destroying about 80 ha of forest.

Source: VietNamNet News April 16, 2018 09:11 UTC