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Question: What groups of people were affected by the deforestation in vietnam?

(Posted by: on 2012-01-27 18:12:46)

Posted by: Shahnn on 2012-01-27, 18:13:32

Squirrels, Foxes, racoons

Posted by: Passo on 2012-01-27, 18:13:37

I don't think that's actually a problem there. It's just a big jungle with rivers.

Posted by: Quincy Kelly on 2012-01-27, 18:15:57

Whoever came in contact with Agent Orange. What groups specifically? Americans, Japaneses, and other villages surrounding Vietnam most likely were affected by deforestation.

Posted by: Mark on 2012-01-27, 18:16:29

People? Well, citizens of those forests, and many Australian, American, and Korean vets. Any more, ask your parents for help cheating.

Posted by: Winston Chau on 2012-01-31, 14:58:59

After 1954, newly independent Vietnam was divided into the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the North and the South Vietnamese Republic. The forests in the north were nationalized, and managed for industrial timber production. Traditional community forest management was not recognized in the new forest laws of either the north or south (Poffenberger and Nguyen Huy Phon 1998, 10). In the south all lands were declared “sovereign territories� and traditional village boundaries and ownership were disregarded. The French policy of encouraging lowland Vietnamese to move to the uplands continued, and in 1955 President Diem ordered thousands of refugees from the north, many of them Catholics, to settle in the central highlands. New and improved roads were built from the coast to facilitate movement of people and goods. A U.S.–Vietnam agreement was signed in 1954 to upgrade and improve roads in the region. One such road, the 150-kilometer section of Route 21 between Ninh Hoa and Ban Me Thuot, was completely rebuilt by a U.S. construction company. The Times of Vietnam magazine reported this development in 1960 under the headline, “New Highway turns Forests into Farms� (Hickey 1982, 63). The Hanoi government progressed massive resettlement schemes, echoing French development plans. The government aimed to resettle large numbers of people to upland “new economic zones� (NEZs), which were to be farmed by lowland Vietnamese from southern cities swollen by the war, from northern cities and from the Red River delta. Approximately 4 million people were forced to move to these zones primarily in the north and central highlands of the country. Many of the people who were moved had never farmed and the land they were sent to was often unsuitable for farming, or already in use (Evans 1992, 279).