Decree No. 333/PM on Protection Forest. Country/Territory Lao, People's Dem. Rep. Document type Regulation Date 2010 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Forestry, Water Keyword Forest management/forest conservation Inventory Traditional rights/customary rights Processing/handling Special fund Protection forest Timber extraction/logging Forestry protection measures Protected area Sustainable use Freshwater resources management Basin/catchment/watershed Water conservation zone Ecosystem preservation Inland waters Geographical area Asia, Asia and the Pacific, Landlocked Developing Nations, Least Developed Countries, South-Eastern Asia Entry into force notes This Decree enters into force on the day of its signatture. Abstract This Decree defines principles, procedures, and measures for management, protection, development, and sustainable use of the protection forest, with the aims of exploiting the protection forests and the protection forestry lands, ensuring the protection of environment, water sources, soil erosion, and safeguarding soil quality the strategic national defense and public security forests, in order to contribute to the improvement of the living standards of people and the national socio-economic development. The Protection Forests are the forests and the forestry lands which are located in the areas of the water sources, watershed areas, wetland forest, and river bank’s forest, road side forest, including the forest in and around the town, Municipality or outskirts of city, village’s sacred forests and cemeteries. The protection forests have the total area of 8,200,000 hectares, which are determined for protecting watershed areas, natural environments, soil erosion, natural disasters, strategic points for the defense-public security and other types of forests. Full text English/Lao Website www.laotradeportal.gov.la References - Legislation Implements Forestry Law No. 64/NPC. Legislation | Lao, People's Dem. Rep. | 2007 (2019) Keyword: Emissions trading, Emissions, Framework law, Forest management/forest conservation, Classification/declassification, Inventory, Traditional rights/customary rights, Processing/handling, Special fund, Timber extraction/logging, Protection of species, EIA, Afforestation/reforestation, Biodiversity, Protected area, Protection forest, Protection of environment, Public forest, Sustainable development, Sustainable use, Timber, Climate change, Trade in species, Freshwater resources management, Water conservation zone, Ecosystem preservation Source: FAO, FAOLEX