MONRE to held activities in response to World Biodiversity Day

Update: 18/05/2023
(TITC) - Responding to World Biodiversity Day (22nd May), the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) plans to organise the Ceremony to celebrate World Biodiversity Day in Ba Be National Park, Conference in “Coordinate the action of implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework” and planting, releasing wildlife activities in Ba Be National Park, painting, photos exhibitions of nature conservation and biodiversity.

MONRE will issue Documents to guide localities, agencies and organisations to organise activities to respond to World Biodiversity Day in 2023; to implement propaganda about World Biodiversity Day through documents, publications and on the mass media.

Activities are organised to propagate, educate, raise awareness, responsibility, and sense of self-conservation of biodiversity of the community, thereby honouring biodiversity values for life of humanity, the messages of the world on biodiversity to take practical actions to preserve and promote biodiversity values for the country's sustainable development. This is also an opportunity to promote the role of each individual and organisation in building, preserving and promoting biodiversity values.

In Vietnam, in 1995, “Vietnam's Biodiversity Action Plan” was issued shortly after Vietnam became a member of the Biodiversity Convention. In 2013, the Prime Minister signed a decision to approve the national strategy for biodiversity to 2020, with a vision to 2030.

2022 is the first year the Law on Environmental Protection 2020 officially takes effect. In order to prevent the decline in biodiversity, from the beginning of 2022, the Government issued a decision to approve the national strategy for biodiversity until 2030, with a vision to 2050.

This strategy encourages businesses and people to participate in conservation, sustainable use activities and ecological system service, to promote the first natural capital prescribed in the Law on Environmental Protection 2020, encouraging the private sector to participate in the conservation of biodiversity.

The strategy states a new goal as to expand and improve the efficiency of managing the system of natural heritage, nature reserves, ensuring the area of natural reserves on the mainland to reach 9% of the area land; The area of preserved marine and coastal region to reach from 3-5% of the nation's natural marine area; Internationally recognized 15 Ramsar sites, 14 biosphere reserves, 15 ASEAN Heritage Parks; The national forest covering rate maintained stable from 42%-43%; Restoring at least 20% of the area of natural ecosystems; no more extinct wildlife species; improve the population of at least 10 premium, precious and rare species that are prioritized for protection; The wild genetic resources and plants and animals are kept under roof and protected to achieve the goal of collecting and preserving at least 100,000 genetic resources…

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