News Headline
Vietnam to have 41 biodiversity reserves by 2020
Source
VietNamNet Bridge
Publication Date
2013-09-26
On Tuesday the General Department of Environment introduced the National Strategy on Biodiversity to 2020, with a vision to 2030. Under this strategy, in 2020, the area of on-land nature reserves in Vietnam will reach 9 percent of the national territory; the area of marine nature reserves to reach 0.24 percent of the sea area; the forest coverage to be 45 percent; to have 10 Ramsar sites, 10 biosphere reserves and 10 ASEAN heritage parks.