{"id":2436,"date":"2018-03-30T17:24:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T15:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etifor.com\/en\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2024-03-13T17:21:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T16:21:45","slug":"huong-son-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etifor.com\/en\/portfolio\/huong-son-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Huong Son Nature<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"

The project
\n<\/strong>Huong Son Nature<\/a> takes place in an area of 20,000 ha of forest owned by the Vietnamese state and manged by Huong Son State Forest Company, in the province of Ha Thin.<\/p>\n

It is the first Vietnamese forest regeneration project<\/strong> that fight climate change, loss of biodiversity and poverty through activities of forest protection, trees planting and development of market for wild forest products. Huong Son Nature<\/strong> generates positive impacts like the capture of CO2<\/strong>, the improvement of water and biodiversity<\/strong> and the creation of jobs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Huong Son Nature originated from the results of the UN GEF (Global Environmental Facility) funded project ForCES<\/strong><\/a> (Forest Certification for Ecosystem Services). ForCES looks at what changes to the FSC\u00ae<\/strong>\u00a0system are needed over a six years\u2019 period, 2011-2017, for FSC to become a global leader in the certification of ecosystem services.<\/p>\n

The problem
\n<\/strong>In the last 15 years Vietnam lost a forest area of more than 1,5 million hectares<\/a>. The causes are the expansion of agriculture lands, unsustainable logging and settlements and infrastructures development.
\nThe negative consequences are:<\/p>\n