Environmental protection of Con Dao district must be done on a long-term and regular basic and on the precautionary principle, combined with pollution control and overcoming recession and attaching scientific and technological application to environmental protection.
That is one of the viewpoints of the overall scheme of Con Dao environmental protection until 2020 and orientations to 2030 which has been approved by the provincial People"s Committee.
Environmental threats
Potentials, natural beauty and the system of heritage, history on Con Dao district have promoted the value of investment attraction in the tourism sector, which changes the appearance, improves living conditions, income for local communities. However, the sharply increasing number of tourists raises the challenges of preserving and protecting the environmental landscape for Con Dao.
Mr. Truong Hoang Phuc - Con Dao District Party Committee Secretary - said, propaganda, community education to aware of environmental protection is often executed in the form of integration into contents of residential group meetings and environmental protection schemes such as "Say no to plastic bags", "Con Dao people"s take part in tourism development" ... However, the amount of waste and sewage is increasing while waste treatment system has low capacity and backward technology; sense of public hygiene protection of visitors and residents is not high ... All are the environmental threats to Con Dao.
Reasonable use of land
The overall scheme of Con Dao’s environmental protection until 2020 and orientations to 2030 has been approved by the provincial People"s Committee.
Accordingly, Con Dao district will not allocate land to build any golf course, villa-style building for high-income people. Building apartments (average 5 floors) for low-income people in the district center instead. Agricultural land area decreases to less than 100 ha. Focus on ice production and seafood processing facilities and other industrial facilities in industrial clusters, Ben Dam industrial center. Diesel power station at Con Dao market will be moved out of the residential area and focus on the An Hoi Power Station. To accelerate the implementation of wind power projects invested by Aerogic Group at Chim Chim Cape and a wind generators at Hon Ba, Hon Bay Canh and Hon Cau islands.
To ensure fresh water source for Con Dao, the plan to expand the capacity of existing freshwater reservoir, adjust land use planning in order to increase the area of building new lakes, ponds, make use of the means of rain water aquifers, with tank sizes such as floating storage tanks, underground storage tanks, and wastewater reuse to serve agricultural production. In addition, in tourism urban construction planning for Con Dao, it also calculates the adaptation to sea level rise caused by climate changes such as no construction works in coastal low land at all islands, foundation height must be from 4 m or more against the sea level; at the same time, research forecasts for negative impacts of climate changes on biodiversity, well organize activities of storm protection, rescue, build storm shelters for fishing boats, tourism, transport and services ... According to architecture Cino Zucchi (Italy), the integration of Con Dao development tasks became a high-quality, unique urban tourism area and marine services with international stature, modern infrastructure associated with requirements on the protection and promotion of natural values, historical monuments is consistent with the development of a green - clean - friendly tourism sector in the world today.