Hoàng Liên National Park

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Coordinates: 22 ° 8 ′ 38 ″  N , 103 ° 32 ′ 0.2 ″  E

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Hoang Lien National Park

The Hoàng Liên National Park ( vietn. Vườn quốc gia Hoàng Liên ) is located in the Hoàng Liên Sơn mountain range in the north-western border region of Vietnam and extends over the Sa Pa districts of the Lào Cai and Than Uyên provinces and part of Phong Thổ of the Lai province Chau .

history

The national park was established on July 12, 2002 by Decree 90/2002 / QĐ-TTg of the Prime Minister. A nature reserve had existed since 1986 (Decree No. 194 / CT of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of August 9, 1986, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development MARD 1997), which was confirmed in 2003 by the World Conservation Monitoring Center of UNEP . Part of the national park has been included in Category II of the IUCN 's species protection program. In 2006, the National Park when it became ASEAN - World Heritage Site recognized.

biodiversity

The park covers almost 30 km² of picturesque mountains and also encloses the highest mountain in Vietnam, the 3143 m high Fan Si Pan . Due to its altitude, temperate to subtropical climates prevail. The mountain forest vegetation provides an abundance of birds (almost 350 species such as thrushes , parrots , greenlings and nuthatches ), mammals, reptiles, amphibians (more abundant than anywhere else in protected areas in Vietnam) and insects. Many live exclusively in this region ( endemic ).

The vegetation regularly consists of evergreen (primeval) forest at altitudes of 1000 to 2500 m. At higher altitudes, only dwarf bamboo and woody trees from the Krummholz zone can be found. Below an altitude of 1000 m, the forest was regularly cleared to make way for human settlements and villages. In addition, over 2000 different plant species can be identified. 66 of them are on the Red List of Endangered Plants. Over 700 types of plants are used in indigenous medicine.

Danger

The deforestation , generally a serious environmental problem in Vietnam, captured in the lower levels and the Hoang Lien National Park. To this day, reforestation projects and export bans on raw wood (decree of 1992) do not change much. On average, more than 50% of forest resources have been destroyed since 1943.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ vietnam-aktuell.de . National parks in Vietnam
  2. ↑ Nick Ray, Peter Dragicevich, Regis St. Louis: Vietnam. MairDumont, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-8297-1595-9 : Environmental problems

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