October 31, 2011
If the current state of zero accountability for wildlife protection continues, other species will follow the rhino to extinction Participants watch projected images including of smuggled rhino horns (R) seized during a press conference on the launch of a rhino population survey report in Vietnam in Hanoi on October 25. A critically endangered species [...]
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August 22, 2011
Scientists say two upcoming dam projects could badly damage the Cat Tien National Park ecosystem. The investor of two controversial hydropower projects planned near a protected jungle in southern Vietnam has admitted the dams would affect the jungle’s biodiversity, but maintained that they are needed to slake Vietnam’s thirst for energy. Bui Phap, board chairman [...]
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July 24, 2011
With hydropower running amok in this country, local critics of neighboring dam projects are throwing stones in a glass house A view of the Cat Tien National Park, where two planned hydropower projects, if built, would encroach on around 140 hectares of forest. Conservationists fear that the two planned dams would totally transform the [...]
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July 12, 2011
Tran Van Thanh (left) and a group of foreign experts during a field trip in the Cat Tien National Park. (Photo: Sai Gon Tiep Thi) The director of the Cat Tien National Park, a UNESCO listed biosphere reserve, says he is determined to stand by opinions contrary to state agencies pushing for the development of [...]
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March 9, 2011
Cat Tien National Park Bau Sau (Crocodile Lake), one of the beautiful vistas at the Cat Tien National Park Just 160 kilometers northeast of Ho Chi Minh City, Cat Tien National Park, one of the largest treasure troves of biodiversity in Vietnam, offers some of the best ecological and cultural experiences even as it [...]
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August 28, 2009
Exploitation of sand has become a problem on all the Vietnam’s largest rivers. The local press reports that unregulated exploitation of sand demands national solutions. Dredging sand on the Red River. Major rivers in the northern region: The Red River flows from southwestern China through northern Vietnam to the Gulf of Tonkin. The Red River begins in China’s Yunnan [...]
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August 6, 2009
German, Russian and Vietnamese scientists have announced their discovery of a new gecko species in the southern provinces of Dong Nai and Ba Ria – Vung Tau, named Cyrtodactylus cattienensis Geissler, Nazarov, Orlov, Boehme, Phung, Nguyen & Ziegler, 2009. The first specimen of this gecko was collected in the Cat Tien National Park, which covers [...]
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April 21, 2009
Gaurs killed at the Cat Tien National Park.LookAtVietnam – Huge networks of traps are employed to catch wild animals, including gaurs, at the National Park of Cat Tien, which has been nominated as a world natural heritage site. Rangers say that they discovered more than 2,000 traps a month on average in 2008. In 2009, they [...]
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February 21, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Cat Tien National Park gives tourists the chance to get up close and personal with some rare wildlife on the park’s special night safari. Visitors can take a small boat ride across the Dong Nai River to get to Cat Tien National Park. LookAtVietnam – Cat Tien National Park gives tourists the chance [...]
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