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VOV.VN - The Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control has sent a dispatch urging provinces stretching from Quang Ninh to Ca Mau to stay ready to respond to super typhoon Surigae.
The position and movement direction of super typhoon Surigae
According to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, the super typhoon is operating in eastern waters of the Philippine with wind force gusting up to above category 17.
Surigae is the strongest typhoon on record for the month of April, surpassing Typhoon Maysak in 2015, among several others which had maximum sustained winds of 278 kph.
On the morning of April 18, the typhoon was situated at about 400 kilometers east of the central coast of the Philippines and is forecast to move along the Philippine coast in a northwest and north northwest direction.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment hosted an online conference on March 4 discussing the building of a national marine space plan and a master plan on the exploitation and sustainable use of coastal resources in 2021-2030 and vision to 2045.
Director
of GreenViet, Tran Huu Vy, said the research, which began last December, has
been tracking the habitat and population of the monkeys as well as food chains
to limit risks of conflict with human activities.
He
said the research was urgent as many flocks of monkey had left their habitat in
the primary forest to seek food from tourists and offerings at temples and
pagodas at the foot of Son Tra mountain recently. Monkeys had conflicts with
people when local residents and visitors tried to feed them.
Monkeys
even broke into kitchens and fruit farms in the reserve, raising risks of
They
undertook advocacy activities to raise public awareness of forest protection
and prevention of fires.
In Ca Mau province,
the provincial People’s Committee is ordering relevant departments and
agencies to have in place sufficient personnel and facilities to promptly
discover fires and extinguish them.
The province
has 110,000ha of forests, including 66,539ha of saltwater mangrove forests,
43,195ha of brackish - water mangrove forests (U Minh Ha forests) and 716ha on
islands.
The U Minh
Ha forests and those on islands usually face a high fire risk in the dry
season, according to the province’s Forest Protection Sub-department.
Rangers are