The ecosystem of Ba Be National Park is threatened

Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys, one of the rare and precious animals in Ba Be National Park.Photo: thiennhien.org

In the last 5 years, Ba Be National Park (Bac Kan) has become more and more affected by humans, making the garden ecosystem at risk of being broken and many valuable forest products threatened.

The main cause of this situation is an increase in the population of the reservoir area, the increasing capacity of catching fish and forest products in the forest and especially the increasing number of tourists to the garden every year.

In the National Park there are more than 450 households with more than 2,800 inhabitants. In addition to daily life activities, residents also use nearly 100 motorboats to continuously transport tourists, which has a significant impact on the natural ecological conditions of the garden.

Since 2002, Bac Kan province has invested more than 46 billion to build resettlement areas associated with ecotourism development and create favorable conditions for people to move to new places. However, migration still faces many difficulties, mainly because people want to stay in the "core" garden area to "collect" precious natural forest resources.

Ba Be National Park, located about 40 km from Bac Kan town, covers an area of ​​over 10,000 ha. The park has 1,280 species of plants belonging to nearly 140 families, including 25 species of plants listed in the Red Book of the World Conservation Association (IUCN) and many rare and precious plants listed in the Vietnam Red Book. .

The fauna here is also rich and diverse in number and types with more than 600 species belonging to 27 orders, including 66 rare and endemic animal species, many of which are in the World Red Book and Vietnam. like phoenix land, pheasant, snub-nosed monkey.

At the end of 2004, Ba Be National Park, along with three other national parks of Vietnam, Hoang Lien in Lao Cai and Chu Mom Ray in Kon Tum and Kon Ka Kinh in Gia Lai, were recognized as ASEAN Heritage Gardens.