Kim-Hy area

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Kim Hỷ
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location Bắc Kạn , Vietnam
surface 157.15 km²
WDPA ID 303017
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Setup date 2003
administration People's Committee of Bac Kan
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Kim Hỷ is a nature reserve in the Vietnamese province of Bắc Cạn . The 157 km² nature reserve has existed since 2003. The establishment of the reserve was planned from 1997, originally with an area of ​​186 km². It includes the municipalities of Kim Hy , Luong Thuong , Lang San , An Tinh and the Na Ri district .

description

The nature reserve is located at altitudes between 250 and 938 meters. Karst stone cliffs occupy the southwest, at least half of the total area . Large parts of the existing mountains are still forested there. A total of around 9,400 hectares of natural forest , 7,100 hectares of which are karst forest. In the north and east the topography shows flat hill country. The landscape there is shaped by a mosaic of slash- and- burn areas and remaining lowland rainforest islands .

Flora and fauna

Particularly worthy of protection animals in the area are the Tonkin black langur ( Trachypithecus francoisi ), a subspecies of the Eastern black crested gibbon and the Cao Vit gibbon ( Hylobates concolor nasutus ). Of the latter type, only a handful of individuals have survived in the area. The Chinese musk deer ( Moschus berezovskii ) and the southern serau ( Naemorhedus sumatraensis ) also occur.

Rare plant species are the conifers Keteleeria davidiana , Chinese Douglas fir ( Pseudotsuga brevifolia ) and Chinese hemlock ( Tsuga chinensis var. Chinensis ).

literature

  • Pham Xuan Xuong: Investment plan for Kim Hy Nature Reserve, Bac Kan Province. Hanoi: North-western Sub-FIPI. (in Vietnamese)
  • Phan Ke Loc, Nguyen Tien Hiep & LV Averyanov: Keteleeria davidiana (Bertrand) Beissn. var. davidiana: one gymnosperm species newly recorded in northern Vietnam , 1999; Pp. 25–28, In: Le Sau (editor): Protection and sustainable development of forest and biodiversity in limestone areas of Vietnam, Hanoi: Forest Inventory and Planning Institute . (in Vietnamese)
  • AW Tordoff, Vu Van Dung, Le Van Cham, Tran Quang Ngoc & Dang Thang Long A rapid field survey of five sites in Bac Kan, Cao Bang and Quang Ninh provinces: a review of the Northern Indochina Subtropical Forests Ecoregion. , Hanoi 2000, BirdLife International Vietnam Program and the Forest Inventory and Planning Institute . (in English and Vietnamese)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pham Xuan Xuong, 1997

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