A cafe in the Son Tra Nature Reserve in Da Nang city.(Photo: Danang Portal) Da Nang (VNA) - Authoritiesplan to demolish 68 illegally built houses, villas and restaurants in the SonTra Nature Reserve if the households are not dismantled before a Septemberdeadline.
Chairwoman of the Son Tra District’s People’s Committee Tran ThiThanh Tam relayed the information to Vietnam News last week,saying that local officials had held talks with residents in the area on takingdown the houses and restaurants.
Tam said the existence of houses and villas in the area resultedfrom poor management from the reserve managing board in past years.
She said the district had reported to the city on the violations.
According to a report from Tho Quang ward’s People’s Committee,more than 156 houses were permitted to log farm and protect 450ha of forest.
However, 68 households built their own houses and villas as wellas restaurants and cafés.
The ward committee said some people built three-story houses withconcrete infrastructure for eco-tours.
Vice chairman of Tho Quang Ward’s committee, Le Tan Thanh saidmany discussions and meetings were held between households and localadministration on destroying these houses.
“We encouraged house owners to dismantle them themselves bySeptember. If they do not, the local administration will destroy them” Thanhsaid.
Violations including illegal logging and hunting were recorded inrecent years, due poor management from the Son Tra-Ngu Hanh Son forestprotection sub-department.
The reserve is managed by different agencies, including the Son Tra-NguHanh Son forest protection sub-department, Tho Quang ward’s administration, SonTra peninsula’s management board of beaches and tourism and the Border Guard,Air Defence and Navy.
The Son Tra Nature Reserve, which is 600m above sea level, isknown for its rich biodiversity, with 287 animal species and 985 plant species.
The reserve has shrunk from more than 4,400ha to 2,500ha to makeroom for dozens of resorts and hotels in the area.
The Da Nang-based reserve is home to 300 red-shanked douc langurs,which are critically endangered and found only in Laos and Vietnam.
In 2015, five hunters from Nghe An province were arrested afterthey were caught with 100 traps, a bag of dried meat and the bones of threered-shanked doucs.
The city has approved a plan through 2030 on the protection ofbiodiversity in Son Tra Nature Reserve.
Two illegally constructed two villas were found in the protectedforest of the Hai Van Pass north of the city last year.
The villas belonged to Phan Nhu Thach, former director of QuangNam province’s public security, and Ngo Van Quang, director of the Phuoc Minhgold mining company and were dismantled, while the owners had to pay fines of 22.5millionVND (1,000 USD) each.-VNA
Chairwoman of the Son Tra District’s People’s Committee Tran ThiThanh Tam relayed the information to Vietnam News last week,saying that local officials had held talks with residents in the area on takingdown the houses and restaurants.
Tam said the existence of houses and villas in the area resultedfrom poor management from the reserve managing board in past years.
She said the district had reported to the city on the violations.
According to a report from Tho Quang ward’s People’s Committee,more than 156 houses were permitted to log farm and protect 450ha of forest.
However, 68 households built their own houses and villas as wellas restaurants and cafés.
The ward committee said some people built three-story houses withconcrete infrastructure for eco-tours.
Vice chairman of Tho Quang Ward’s committee, Le Tan Thanh saidmany discussions and meetings were held between households and localadministration on destroying these houses.
“We encouraged house owners to dismantle them themselves bySeptember. If they do not, the local administration will destroy them” Thanhsaid.
Violations including illegal logging and hunting were recorded inrecent years, due poor management from the Son Tra-Ngu Hanh Son forestprotection sub-department.
The reserve is managed by different agencies, including the Son Tra-NguHanh Son forest protection sub-department, Tho Quang ward’s administration, SonTra peninsula’s management board of beaches and tourism and the Border Guard,Air Defence and Navy.
The Son Tra Nature Reserve, which is 600m above sea level, isknown for its rich biodiversity, with 287 animal species and 985 plant species.
The reserve has shrunk from more than 4,400ha to 2,500ha to makeroom for dozens of resorts and hotels in the area.
The Da Nang-based reserve is home to 300 red-shanked douc langurs,which are critically endangered and found only in Laos and Vietnam.
In 2015, five hunters from Nghe An province were arrested afterthey were caught with 100 traps, a bag of dried meat and the bones of threered-shanked doucs.
The city has approved a plan through 2030 on the protection ofbiodiversity in Son Tra Nature Reserve.
Two illegally constructed two villas were found in the protectedforest of the Hai Van Pass north of the city last year.
The villas belonged to Phan Nhu Thach, former director of QuangNam province’s public security, and Ngo Van Quang, director of the Phuoc Minhgold mining company and were dismantled, while the owners had to pay fines of 22.5millionVND (1,000 USD) each.-VNA
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