On December 23, 2022, at the Forest Protection Department of A Luoi district, Thua Thien Hue province and the Center for People and Nature (PanNature) coordinated with the Forest Protection and Development Fund of Thua Thien Hue province to organize a workshop regarding shared benefits of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for forest stakeholders.
On December 21 and 22, 2022, People and Nature Reconciliation (PanNature) and the Forest Protection and Development Fund of Th?a Thiên Hu? DVMTR jointly organized a training workshop on benefit sharing from reducing GHG emissions for communities in the villages of Chi Du Nghia, A Ry, Giong, Mu Nu Ta Ra in Huong Nguyen commune, A Luoi district, Thua Thien Hue province. The training was divided into two phases for village groups. Training for Chi Du Nghia and A Ry village communities took place on 21st December and training for Giong and Mu Nu Ta Ra village communities took place on 22nd December.
The members, participating organizations, and representatives of civil society organizations and community-based organizations, Indigenous People’s networks, and membership organizations of the Civil Society Organizations Forum on Social Forestry in ASEAN, or CSO Forum, have come together for our 9th Annual…
After two years of online-only meetings, the ICCA Consortium Southeast Asia Regional Assembly gathered in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in October. PanNature's Executive Director attended and contributed to the meeting.
In Vietnam, many forests are being effectively managed by the most active guardians - the local communities - thanks to their cultural norms: the forest left by their ancestors is also the place where the forest god resides. It’s the traditional regulations and laws imprinted through the traditional practice of worshiping the sacredness of the gods that guide the community to manage and protect these forests for hundreds and thousands of years. However, there are challenges ahead that hinder them from playing their role.
Vietnam has adopted a national Payment for Forest Environmental Services (PES) policy, which while primarily paying individual households for forest protection, has been flexible enough to allow for collective PES models to also arise. Such collective models have the potential to reduce transaction costs, avoid motivation crowding, and protect common-pool resources like community forests.
Vietnam’s forests under threat from new roads and projects as the country grows and expands after the pandemic.
In 2018, Tran Huu Phuc signed up for a training course on facilitation skills. At first, he thought it would be like every other course he had attended since working at a forestry company in Hue (Viet Nam). After a…
Critics say biomass burning in South Korea and Japan poses logging and carbon risks
H Ten Nie loves planting forests. In 2018, her family planted one hectare of forest. In 2020, they planted one hectare of trees - Hopea odorata, a native species to the area that grows up to 45 metres tall.