U Minh Thuong forest tourist area

U Minh Thuong National Park is one of three key areas of the Kien Giang world biosphere reserve that possesses the highest biodiversity value in the Mekong Delta region. Along with implementing many local solutions, Kien Giang province promotes international cooperation to improve the effectiveness of ecosystem protection and restoration in this area. U Minh Thuong National Park is recognized as the 2,228th Ramsar Site in the world and the 8th in Vietnam, formed and concentrated in the west of Ca Mau peninsula, adjacent to the mangrove forest range along the Gulf of Thailand. , U Minh Thuong is a special type of alum flooded forest in Vietnam, and is even recognized in the list of unique and rare forest types in the world. According to research by functional agencies, in the alum forest ecosystem of the Mekong Delta, only the forest flora of the core area of ​​U Minh Thuong National Park has the characteristics of primeval peak forests. born. These are mixed melaleuca forests and melaleuca forests on peat land, with an area of ​​nearly 3,000 hectares. This was also the base of the revolution during the resistance period. With this characteristic, U Minh Thuong National Park is one of the two most important areas of peat swamp forest remaining in Vietnam. On the peat remains the natural landscape of the ancient U Minh forest with ancient cajuput trees and the red water stream of the U Minh region. The melaleuca forest ecosystem on peatland has become an ecosystem of special importance, nurturing and sheltering hundreds of species of wildlife. U Minh Thuong possesses the most biodiversity of species. Plants in the Mekong Delta, besides the growth of Melaleuca trees, there are more than 254 species belonging to 84 families, with many endemic species such as ground orchids, duckweed, ferns... In U Minh Thuong there are 72 Rare and precious animal and plant species are recorded in the Vietnam Red Book. Over the past years, Kien Giang province has made great efforts in implementing the process of preserving and restoring natural resources in peatlands, ensuring the naturalness, wildness and integrity of the ecological system. , the diversity and outstanding value of the population in U Minh Thuong National Park. Recently, with the aim of restoring and protecting the integrity of the melaleuca forest ecosystem on typical peatland of the Mekong Delta and of Vietnam to adapt to climate change. Improving agricultural - forestry - fishery production capacity for buffer zone communities to reduce pressure on the conservation of forest and wetland resources of the National Park, Kien Giang Provincial People's Committee approved aid from the Swiss International Organization for Nature Conservation in Vietnam to implement the project to restore the ecosystem integrity of U Minh Thuong National Park. Accordingly, the project aims to restore the integrity of the wetland ecosystem in U Minh Thuong National Park through planting and restoring 280 hectares of melaleuca forest on burned and degraded peatland, increasing canopy cover. Forest cover of U Minh Thuong National Park increased by 3.48%. Improved livelihoods for 900 buffer zone community households in U Minh Thuong National Park through applying better management practices and diversifying agricultural, forestry and fishery products. The aid met the maximum results of planting 280 hectares of special-use forests with native species that grow well on heavily burned peatland in the core area of ​​U Minh Thuong National Park, contributing to the Government's 01 billion trees. In addition, the project aims to achieve at least 20% of households in the buffer zone whose income is likely to increase by 10-15% thanks to the application of better management practices and product diversification in production. Agriculture, Forestry and fishery. The project benefits 900 households in 2 communes An Minh Bac and Minh Thuan, U Minh Thuong district. Implemented in 05 years, with total non-refundable aid capital of over 6 billion 529 million VND.

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Ngày cập nhật : 01/04/2023