This Law provides measures and regulations for the sustainable management, preservation, development, utilization and inspection of forest resources and forest land, and of forest regeneration and tree planting in order to make forests and forest land stable sources of life for people, to ensure protection of the environment and of water resources, protection from soil erosion, etc.The Law classifies forests into three categories: protection forests; conservation forests; and production forests. These areas include dense forests, degraded forests, bare forest land and village use forests according to the designed plan.In addition, the Law makes provision for the management and use of forests and forest land which includes activities of survey, classification, planning, research, logging and forest product harvesting surveys.