Prevent precious animal slaughter

The total cost of domestic and foreign projects invested in the protection of rare and precious birds and animals in Central Truong Son is up to millions of USD. However, they are being hunted, brutally murdered.

Red-faced macaque in Huong Lap forest, Huong Hoa district, Quang Tri province

After many investigations and studies, the International Fund for Nature Protection (WWF) and the International Bird Conservation Organization (Birds Life) identify the Central Truong Son region from Quang Tri to Thua Thien-Hue as the countryside. incense of many rare species of birds and animals.

85 precious birds

Cao Dang Viet, biodiversity conservation officer of Quang Tri Forest Protection Department, said that after many surveys in the forest of Huong Lap commune, scientists at home and abroad found 85 species of precious birds residing. live. Remarkably, the species are in the list of threatened birds in Asia such as small fish kites, forest lemon balm, eagle code, brown belly temple teacher, green ants, red ants, white forehead injection and the flag-tailed bird . In addition, there are 7 species named in the Vietnam Red Book and the most important birds are the pheasant star, the gray-headed babbler, the white-crested pheasant, and the black crest ( lophura edwardsi, lophura imperialis) .

Going to the south of Quang Tri province, scientists have repeatedly discovered gaurs (gaurus bos) from 12 to 15 heads, living along the basins of Ba Long and Vinh Dinh rivers with the range of move quite wide. Another mammal species is the red wolf (cuon alpinus) in the Cam region, in Cam Lo district. Red wolf lives in groups of 3 to 5 children. At the highest number of wolves in Cua to both The event made many domestic and foreign scientists most interested in the discovery of saola (pseudoryx nghetinhensis) living in the southern forest of Quang Tri province and district A forest. Grid of Thua Thien-Hue province.The discovery of saola is recognized as a new species of the world.Saola is present in the forests of Dakrong and A Luoi districts with the number of over 150 individuals. hundred children.

Catch the tiger for sale

However, rare birds and animals in the Central Truong Son area are facing great risk of hunting. Most recently, in mid-June 2006, a bull in Quang Tri forest was trapped by hunters. When it was reported, the Dakrong Nature Reserve staff of Quang Tri province arrived and the bulls could not be saved. Cows were cut with heads and four legs to serve research and investigation.

In Phong Dien district, Thua Thien-Hue province, forest rangers also discovered rare animal traffickers for tigers to take to the North for consumption. This time, getting the news in time, the tiger was lucky to be rescued and returned to the forest. Not only the tiger was caught, many ethnic people in A Luoi and Dakrong mountain confessed that they used to go to the forest to set up traps so that they could sell horns to the merchants. Particularly in 2006, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue provinces confiscated and released to the forest tons of rare and precious wild animals.

Edwards's pheasant is found in Quang Tri

Do not give up a plot

Mr. Khong Trung, Head of Quang Tri Forest Protection Department, acknowledged that the forest protection sector had many difficulties in protecting rare and precious species of birds and animals. The cause of this situation is the pressure of population living in nature conservation areas. These people come to settle and settle in the middle of the forest before the nature reserve, so it is very difficult to take them out of the reserve or the buffer zone. In addition, many indigenous people collude with trade lines along Ho Chi Minh Road, to buy and hunt rare and precious animals. The subjects did not give up any conspiracy, as long as they captured as many wild animals as possible. They use tricks such as giving money in advance to hire people in trapping areas, catching animals and then bringing them to the gathering places to sell them to other places for consumption. Mr. Khong Trung said: 'On average, every forest ranger must protect and patrol up to 4,000 ha of forest. Little people, many forests, even if they do their best, don't do all the work. '

More natural reserves should be established

In the Central Truong Son region, there are two newly established protected areas, the Dakrong Nature Reserve of Quang Tri Province and Phong Dien Nature Reserve of Thua Thien-Hue Province.In the near future, an additional nature reserve will be established in Huong Lap commune, in the north of Huong Hoa district (Quang Tri).However, Mr. Khong Trung proposed the Central Government to establish more important conservation areas and bird areas to conserve from afar as countries around the world have done, unfortunately limiting the hunting and trapping of wild animals. like nowadays.