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04-21-2010, 09:00 AM
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Bai Tu Long National Park
Bai Tu Long National Park in north-eastern Quang Ninh province has recovered its biological diversity with plant coverage exceeding 95% thanks to all-out efforts by rangers and employees of the park.
 Located to the north of well-known Ha Long Bay and 20 km from the centre of Van Don district, the park covers 15,783 ha, including 6,125 ha of island land and 9,658 ha of tidal land on Ba Mun, Tra Ngo Lon, Tra Ngo Nho, Sau Nam, Sau Dong, Dong Ma, and more than 20 other small islands. The park is now home to 672 species of terrestrial plants and 178 aquatic floral species, of which 11 species have been listed in Vietnam’s Red Book of endangered species. It also boasts 170 species of terrestrial animals, including nine species listed as endangered in Vietnam’s Red Book; 119 species of fish; 132 species of invertebrate animals; and 106 species of corals.  Apart from its biological diversity, the park boasts wonderful natural landscapes, intact beaches, archaeological sites of ancient Viet Nam and vestiges of the former busy trading port of Van Don. To protect the park’s fauna and flora, the local rangers have coordinated with part-time employees to strictly patrol the forest in order to prevent poaching of forestry and sea products. The park’s management board, in coordination with relevant agencies, organised training courses to raise local residents’ awareness about the protection of forestry and maritime resources and inserted environmental protection into the curriculum of local schools.   The board has also allocated 13 hectares of forests to local households for care and re-forested 50 other hectares on the largest island of Ba Mun. It recently released more than 100 long-tailed monkeys, which were seized from smugglers by the provincial rangers, into forests.
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