November 29, 2011
Birds looking for fish at Xuan Thuy National Park in the northern province of Nam Dinh Grey skies. It had been raining for a few days and the skies were still cloudy. Grey skies are not traditionally associated with uplifting beauty, but we were gazing at a scene that rested very easy on the [...]
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November 23, 2011
Cat Tien National Park's current logo, with an image of the Javan rhinoceros Cat Tien National Park is looking for a new logo to replace the old one, which features the Javan rhinoceros that has been declared extinct in Vietnam. The park is working with scientists from the Central Highlands Biological Institute to restore the whole skeleton [...]
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November 21, 2011
Pu Mat National Park and the Pu Huong and Pu Hoat nature reserves are the core zones of the UNESCO-recognized Western Nghe An Biosphere Reserve, at 1.3 million hectares the largest such reserve in Southeast Asia. The park, whose name means high slope in the language of the Thai tribe, is located in the [...]
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November 16, 2011
Bill Talen, known as Reverend Billy (C), delivers a speech to members of the Occupy Wall Street movement as they return to Zuccotti Park in New York November 15, 2011. A judge upheld New York City’s right to evict Occupy Wall Street protesters from a park on Tuesday after baton-wielding police in riot gear broke [...]
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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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October 14, 2011
A protester chants during an Occupy Wall Street march in New York October 1, 2011 Anti-Wall Street protesters vowed to keep up their fight on Sunday despite the arrests of more than 700 people the previous day for blocking traffic lanes on the Brooklyn Bridge in an unauthorized protest. Police issued more than 700 summonses [...]
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October 14, 2011
Saturday Brunch at the Park Hyatt Saigon’s Square One. Last week I went back to Square One at the Park Hyatt Saigon to try out the restaurant’s new Saturday Brunch. Square One is popular for its varied menu of contemporary Vietnamese (mainly Southern dishes), French and other food. It’s dining in luxury amid a décor [...]
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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 19, 2011
Tourists on a boat row at Cat Tien national park Cat Tien National Park in the southern province of Dong Nai has been officially titled a world biosphere reserve by UNESCO, the park managers said Sunday. Â In the official notice sent to the park managers, the United Nations organization refers to the park as [...]
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