21.   They will be deploying volunteers with specific messages on clean water, saving salmon and protecting forests.

22.   Vientiane insists it wants minorities down on farmland and out of the mountains to protect the forests and provide alternatives to opium.

23.   A U.N. conference on biodiversity opens Sunday to refine ways of protecting forests and controlling the invasion of dangerous plants and organisms to nonnative areas.

24.   Although they agreed the situation was bleak, the experts said tigers could thrive again if the forests where they still survive are properly protected from poachers.

25.   Communicating by walkie-talkie, students and villagers from the protest camp carry out surveys of the mountainous terrain as their leaders plot how to protect the forest.

26.   Had the government intended to protect the forests on the Nakai plateau it should have started doing so long ago.

27.   He added that the rapid loss of the forest area in the country each year showed that the Royal Forestry Department was not capable of protecting the forests.

28.   He also said the quota aimed to manage forests in a sustainable manner and to protect forest from severe exploitation.

29.   If the conservationists lose their battle to protect the forest, the country might lose a significant number of wild elephants.

30.   In recent years, Vietnam has started making efforts to protect its forests, but only after vast tracts have been devastated.