Decree on the Protection Forest

This Decree defines the principles, the procedures, and the measures on the management, the protection and conversation, the development, and the sustainable use of the protection forest, with the aims of bringing the richness to the protection forests and the protection forestry lands, ensuring the protection of the environment, the water sources, the soil erosion, and safeguarding the soil quality the strategic national defense and public security forests, including the restoration, the encouragement, the monitoring and assessment of the laws in order to contribute to the improvement of the living standards of the people and the national socio-economic development.