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The first biosphere reserve in Vietnam
Official name: Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve.
The date approved by UNESCO: January 21, 2000.
Administrative boundary: Can Gio District, Ho Chi Minh city.
Zonation:
- Core zone: 4 721 ha.
- Buffer zone: 37 339 ha.
- Transtion zone: 29 310 ha.
Total: 71 370 ha.
- After totally destroyed during the war, the mangrove is rehabilitated as seen as the most beautiful in the Southeast Asia.
- Mangrove species have a gene pool to adapt the severe condition flooded in tidal water and muddy soils in coastal zones. Other plants can not survival in these conditions.
- The mangrove is ‘a green lung’ for the Ho Chi Minh City, industrial zones and surrounding areas.
- The mangrove is supporting nesting, nursering and feeding areas for juveniles of aquatic organisms and endangered birds and mammals.
- Support the place to educate revolutionary tradition, patriot and nature appreciations, enviromental ethics as a living laboratory for scientific research and initiation of future generations.
Enjoy beautiful lanscape
in the biosphere reserve
- Boating a long the river unders the sunset.
- Monkey babies play to follow tourists and crocodiles try to catch preys.
- Young crabs hiding under prop and knee roots when the low tide come.
- Forgeting the time to follow the trial of birds and bats to return the home under the sunset.
- Following the foot prints of ‘Rung Sac’ heroes during the war in the remains of resistance base.
Conserving the heritage of mankind for today and tomorrow.
- Global values depend on individual responsibility.
- Cutting tree is a sentence; the loss of forest, loses all.
- Discharge of garbage to pollute the environment and landscape beauty.
- People are ecosystem citizens: getting benefits from the nature and paying conservation for them for further generations