Since early October 2025, the Quài Tở commune People’s Committee established a legal communication working group led by the local Ranger Team, directly communicating in all 31/31 villages with the full participation of households. The communication content focused on disseminating important regulations of the Law on Forestry, decrees, and circulars from the Government and the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment related to forest management, protection, development, forest fire prevention and fighting, and forestry product management. Implementing communication at the grassroots, the working group also consolidated and strengthened the village forest fire prevention and fighting teams, assigning specific tasks to each member, thereby enhancing the community’s awareness and responsibility in forest protection.

Mùa A Sử, Chief of Thẳm Nặm village (Quài Tở commune), said: “In the past, people didn’t understand the law and would burn their upland fields during hot, dry times, making it easy for forest fires to occur. Now, rangers and other forces come down to the village to communicate, mobilize, and guide on forest fire prevention and fighting measures. People understand now; they don’t burn fields indiscriminately but strictly follow the regulations to best protect the forest. Our village is united now, listening to the government, protecting the forest together, and keeping the village peaceful so our children and grandchildren can live sufficiently with green forests.”

Thanks to the decisive and synchronous involvement of the ranger force and coordinating units, the legal communication work in Quài Tở commune has truly deepened, creating a clear change in the awareness and actions of people. Each household is more aware of the importance of the forest to their lives, proactively clearing and burning fields according to regulations, and actively participating in the village’s forest fire prevention and fighting team.

Pú Nhung currently has 8,918.22ha of forest, with a coverage of 42.48%; including 664.37ha of production forest. To improve the efficiency of forest fire prevention and fighting work in the 2025 - 2026 dry season, Pú Nhung commune has coordinated with the Tuần Giáo Ranger Unit to organize direct communication in all 21/21 villages, disseminating legal regulations on forestry, forest fire prevention and fighting, forest product management, and related laws to people.

The communication sessions focused on guiding people to conduct farming in planned areas and not to burn fields during peak hours of high temperatures and low humidity. At the same time, they listened and answered people’s questions related to forest management and protection.

Nguyễn Văn Bách, Chairman of the Pú Nhung commune People’s Committee, shared: “The communication sessions were organized widely, practically, concisely, and were easy to understand, remember, and follow, so they attracted many participants. Through this, people’s awareness of the role and importance of the forest for life, the environment, and agricultural production has clearly improved. Forest owners, households, and communities all showed a spirit of responsibility in protecting the forest, proactively signed commitments not to violate forestry laws, and actively participated in forest fire prevention and fighting activities launched by the locality.”

To ensure the dry season forest fire prevention and fighting work is effective, the Department of Agriculture and Environment has directed communes, wards, and relevant units to implement many synchronous solutions. The focus is on strictly guiding and managing people when they burn their fields, strictly prohibiting burning during high temperatures and low humidity, and requiring a temporary halt to all field-burning activities when there is a high-level forest fire risk warning.

Organizations and individuals who intentionally violate will be handled strictly under the law to deter, educate, and prevent violations. Localities are also proactively building and repairing fire prevention infrastructure such as clearing bushes and vines that obscure signs, widening trails and firebreaks, creating favorable conditions for mobilizing forces, transporting logistics, and quickly accessing fire points when incidents occur. At the same time, they are arranging water access points for firefighting, and regularly inspecting and maintaining forest fire prevention and fighting equipment, ensuring readiness when needed.

The provincial Forest Protection Sub-department coordinates with media agencies to promote communication and dissemination of the Party’s guidelines and the State’s laws in the forestry sector. It regularly updates forest fire risk level forecasts throughout the dry season peak, helping localities and forest owners proactively implement preventive measures. Models of self-governance, “village without forest fires,” and “exemplary household in forest protection” continue to be replicated, contributing to forming an all-people movement to participate in forest protection and development.

Information dissemination on forest fire prevention and fighting has been and is being implemented widely, practically, and effectively by localities and functional agencies. From direct communication sessions to utilizing loudspeaker systems, panels, posters, or social media, the message is increasingly permeating people’s consciousness. As a result, many households have changed their farming habits, adhering to regulations when burning fields, and proactively joining village forest fire prevention and fighting teams, contributing to building a responsible community that joins hands to protect and develop the forest.