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U Minh Ha National Park
Lang Sen cranes - one of 15 species of cranes
existing in the world on the brink of
Lang Sen salt-marsh natural reserve extinction. The cranes can be over
is located in Tan Hung District, Long are over 1.7m high with glossy grey
An Province, and is sponsored by feathers, red heads and wide wings.
the Global Environmental Fund
(GEF), UN Development Program Xeo Quyt
(UNDP), International Union of
Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Xeo Quyt base, which is over 30km
Mekong Wetlands Biodiversity from the town Cao Lanh, Dong
Program (MWBP). This was selected Thap Province, is a cajuput forest
as one of the two regions for covering more than 20ha. In the
intelligent biodiversity preservation resistance war against American
in Mekong Sub-region. In Lang imperialists, this was the base of the
Sen, there is a diversity of plants Provincial Party Committee Agency
and animals including hundreds of (from the end of 1960 - 1975).
species, especially sarus cranes. Nowadays, it has been restored by
Dong Thap Province as a resort.
Tram Chim National Park The ecological environment is
quite diversified with hundreds of
Tram Chim National Park is located species of wild animals including
in Tam Nong Province, Dong Thap the Indian python, ptyas mucosus,
Province, covering 7,588ha. This cuora trifasciata, etc. that are
is a wetland with a diversified and enlisted in the Vietnam Red Book.
abundant biological system. It is Therefore, Xeo Quyt is often called
home to many species of plants, the miniature Dong Thap Muoi.
nearly 200 species of wet birds,
about one quarter of the species of Chau Doc
birds in Vietnam, and includes many
rare species of birds in the world. Close to the Vietnam - Cambodia
The most typical and known specie border, Chau Doc town is near Hau
of bird is sarus crane. Coming here, River, in An Giang, about 245km
tourists have chance to see sarus west of Ho Chi Minh City. Chau Doc
has Ba Chua Xu Nui Sam temple
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