LUYỆN NGHE TIẾNG ANH
Điều 9
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Article 9. Forest protection and development principles

1. Forest protection and development activities must ensure sustainable economic, social, environmental, defense and security development; be in line with the socioeconomic development strategy and forestry development strategy; comply with the national and local forest protection and development plannings and plans; and comply with the forest management regulation issued by the Prime Minister.

2. To protect forests is the responsibility of all agencies, organizations, households and individuals. Forest protection and development must ensure the principles of managing forests in a sustainable manner; combining forest protection and development with rational exploitation so as to promote the efficiency of forest resources; closely combining afforestation, zoning off for forest tending, regeneration and enrichment with protection of the existing forest acreage; combining forestry with agriculture and fishery; boosting the economic-forest plantation in association with development of the forest-product processing industry with a view to raising the value of forest products.

3. Forest protection and development must be in line with the land-use plannings and plans. The forest and land assignment, lease, recovery and use-purpose change must comply with the provisions of this Law, the Land Law and other relevant law provisions, ensuring long-term stability along the direction of socialization of forestry.

4. To ensure the harmony between the State’s and forest owners’ interests; between the economic benefits of forests and the interests of protection, environmental protection and nature conservation; between the immediate and long-term interests, ensuring that forestry practitioners can live mainly on forestry.

5. Forest owners shall exercise their rights and perform their obligations in the forestuse terms according to the provisions of this Law and other law provisions, causing no harms to other forest owners’ legitimate interests.