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Yok Don National Park
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Situated about 40 km from the city of Buon Ma Thuot in the
Central Highlands, the Yok Don National Park is an ancient tropical
forest that covers more than 100,000 hectares. The butterfly-shape
park is divided by the Serepok River, providing a valuable food
source for the wide variety of tropical flora and fauna species,
including elephants.
At the entrance of the Yok Don Park’s tourist area, you can see
large cement statues of elephants. Not long ago, five wild elephants
were moved into this park from the Tanh Linh forest in central
Vietnam.
Sharing a border with Cambodia on the west, the Yok Don National
Park was established in 1992 and includes two forestry farms and the
Yok Don natural forest. Vietnamese and foreign forestry researchers
are seeking means to preserve the natural forests at Yok Don, which
has a forest coverage of some 85 percent - the highest rate in
Vietnam's Central Highlands.
Most recently, scientists from BirdLife International and the
Vietnam Ecological and Biological Natural Resource Institute
discovered a red-headed crane at Yok Don. The bird is listed as an
endangered specie that usually migrates to
Vietnam's Mekong Delta
from Cambodia and southern Laos. Another critically endangered bird,
the Ibis was also discovered by scientists during their
bio-diversity survey. The Ibis was thought to be extinct in Vietnam
since it was last seen in 1931 by a French environmentalist.
Given its rich natural resources, the Yok Don National Park is
defined by the Vietnamese Government as one of two zones under the
Bio-diversity Comprehensive Plan of Action. It will become the most
sustainable natural reserve in Vietnam. |
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