Bat Xat Nature Reserve transferred to Lao Cai Provincial Forest Protection Department for management

The People's Committee of Lao Cai Province has just issued Decision No. 2542/QD-UBND on transferring the Management Board (MB) of Bat Xat Nature Reserve under the Bat Xat District Forest Protection Department to the Lào Cai Province's Forest Protection Sub-Department.

Accordingly, from August 1, the Bat Xat Nature Reserve MB’s functions, tasks, payroll, number of employees, finance, assets, records, and documents will be transferred to the provincial Forest Protection Department for management.

The above decision also assigns that the Bat Xat Nature Reserve MB is a public non-business unit with regular expenditures guaranteed by the State under the direct leadership of the Lao Cai Province’s Forest Protection Department and State management of Lao Cai Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. The MB’s head office is located in Ngai Cho village, Den Sang Commune (Bat Xat District, Lao Cai Province). It has its own legal status, seal, and separate account to operate in accordance with the law.

 Bat Xat Nature Reserve MB is responsible for organizing, managing, and protecting natural resources in conservation areas of five communes of Y Ty, Den Sang, Sang Ma Sao, Trung Leng Ho, and Nam Pung. These reserves cover an area of 18,637 ha, with 940 species of high-level plants, of which 44 species are listed in the Red Book of Vietnam and the world, and 157 species of vertebrates.

In addition, the management board is also responsible for implementing measures for the sustainable development of biological, land, water resources, and others; restore and preserve intact ecosystems, biodiversity, standard samples of high mountain forest ecosystems, genetic resources of endemic and rare flora and fauna; organize research and serve scientific research; organize zoning and promotion of regeneration of native trees and forest ecosystems, creating conditions for all kinds of animals and plants to exist and develop; coordinate with relevant agencies to develop ecotourism development projects and submit them to competent authorities for approval…