Climate change devastates Ca Mau Cape

Experts predict that the sea level in the Southern region will increase by 0.3m by 2020. According to calculations, if sea level rises to 0.7m, the area of ​​Ca Mau province will be flooded up to 28%.

'Climate change is the biggest risk affecting the Mui Ca Mau Biosphere Reserve. Forecasting in the Southern region until 2020, the sea level will rise by 0.3m. According to calculations, if sea level rises to 0.7m, the area of ​​Ca Mau province will be flooded up to 28%, concentrated in low-lying areas of this biosphere reserve ', that is the judgment of Mr. Nguyen Tien Hai, Vice Chairman of Ca Mau Provincial People's Committee before the anomalies of the southernmost weather of the country from the beginning of the year until now.

Mr. Ly Van Nhan, the Management Board of Mui Ca Mau Biosphere Reserve, also said that in recent years, the Mui Ca Mau Biosphere Reserve has been 'devastated' by rising temperatures and rising sea levels. , salinization.

Ca Mau is at risk of flooding 28% due to the effects of climate change.Photo: Mui Ca Mau KDQQ Management Board.

In addition, over 170,000 inhabitants of the river water live in Mui Ca Mau, if there is no sense of protection of nature, it will also harm this biosphere reserve. 'Only 2,000 households who are free migrants in the West Sea dyke due to lack of unstable jobs, still live by exploiting natural resources also increase the danger to the invasion of the biosphere reserve', Mr. Nhan said.

According to Mr. Nhan, in order to effectively preserve this biosphere reserve, Ca Mau needs to introduce a climate change adaptation program. The provincial government will also rush to plan, reorganize the coastal population, promote community capacity in protecting and preserving the ecological environment, and preventing acts of directly harming natural resources.

Mui Ca Mau Biosphere Reserve covers an area of ​​more than 371,500 ha, including 3 functional areas: buffer zone, core zone and transition zone (including Mui Ca Mau National Park, protection forest and West coast alluvial ground). This is a place with a typical flora community of the ecosystem, at the same time is a residence, breeding ground and nurturing larvae of aquatic species in the Gulf of Thailand.

Western coastal protection forests have a special geological structure, with a straight coastline, a bridge between two typical ecosystems in the Ca Mau peninsula, mangroves and melaleuca forests. Many plants in the mangrove forest represent a unique representation of pure and mixed forest types, some of which are listed in the world's red book.