BirdLife International in Indochina

and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

with financial support from

the World Bank

 and the Royal Netherlands Government

Sourcebook of Existing and Proposed

Protected Areas in Vietnam

Second Edition

This document is an output of the:

Vietnam Forest Sector Development Project

through the parallel task:

Updating of Sourcebook of Existing and Proposed Protected Areas in Vietnam

Hanoi

February 2004

Editors (second edition):              Andrew W. Tordoff

                                                  Tran Quoc Bao

                                                  Nguyen Duc Tu

                                                  Le Manh Hung

Editors (first edition):                   Ross Hughes

                                                  Le Trong Trai

                                                  Andrew W. Tordoff

                                                  Vu Van Dung

Maps:                                         Ha Quy Quynh

Project Funding:                          World Bank and Royal Netherlands Government (Contract: 7126261)

Cover Illustrations:                      Lesser Adjutant Leptoptilos javanicus by Robert Gillmor; Small-webbed Bell Toad Bombina microdeladigitora by Jeremy Holden/FFI; and Stichophthalma uemurai by Alexander Monastyrskii

Citation:                                      Tordoff, A. W., Tran Quoc Bao, Nguyen Duc Tu and Le Manh Hung eds. (2004) Sourcebook of existing and proposed protected areas in Vietnam. Second edition. Hanoi: BirdLife International in Indochina and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

Copies available from:                 BirdLife International in Indochina,

                                                  4 Lane 209, Doi Can,

                                                  Hanoi, Vietnam

                                                  Tel: + (84) 4 722 3820

                                                  Fax: + (84) 4 722 3835

                                                  E-mail: birdlife@birdlife.netnam.vn

                                                  Website: www.birdlifevietnam.com (English)

                                                                www.birdlifevietnam.org (Vietnamese)

                                                  Forest Protection Department,

                                                  Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development,

                                                  2 Ngoc Ha, Ba Dinh,

                                                  Hanoi, Vietnam

                                                  Tel: + (84) 4 733 5677

                                                  Fax: + (84) 4 733 5685

                                                  E-mail: ckl@fpt.vn

                                                  Website: www.kiemlam.org.vn

Acknowledgements

The second edition of the Sourcebook of Existing and Proposed Protected Areas in Vietnam has been produced with financial support from the World Bank and the Royal Netherlands Government, as a parallel task of the Vietnam Forest Sector Development Project. The editors would like to take this opportunity to thank the World Bank and the Royal Netherlands Government for their support, in particular Ms Susan S. Shen, Project Manager at the World Bank, and Mr Ross Hughes and Mr Benjamin Zech, Development Counsellors at the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Hanoi.

Technical support for the preparation of this document was provided by the Forest Protection Department (FPD) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD). The editors would like to thank the FPD and, in particular, Dr Nguyen Ba Thu, Director of FPD, Dr Nguyen Huu Dung, Head of the Nature Conservation Division of FPD, and Mr Tran The Lien, Vice-head of the Nature Conservation Division, for their generous support and advice.

The first edition of the sourcebook was prepared by BirdLife International and the Forest Inventory and Planning Institute (FIPI) of MARD, as part of a European Union-funded project entitled Expanding the Protected Areas Network in Vietnam for the 21st Century. The editors would like to acknowledge the contributions of FIPI and the European Union to the contents of the current document.

Finally, the editors would like to thank all those organisations and individuals who assisted with the compilation of the second edition of the sourcebook by providing information or reviewing draft site accounts:

National organisations

Dr Nguyen Ba Thu, Dr Nguyen Huu Dung and Mr Tran The Lien at the FPD of MARD; and representatives of FPDs, departments of agriculture and rural development and Special-use Forest management boards in 41 provinces.

International organisations

Michael Baltzer, Nick Cox, James Hardcastle and Barney Long at the WWF Indochina Programme; Mark Bezuijen, Paul Insua-Cao and Fernando Potess at the Creating Protected Areas for Resource Conservation Using Landscape Ecology Project; Leo Botrill at Frontier-Vietnam; Louis Deharveng at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris; Neil Furey at the Fauna & Flora International (FFI) Pu Luong-Cuc Phuong Conservation Project; Andrew Greiser Johns at the Social Forestry and Nature Conservation in Nghe An Province Project; Gary Miller and Gert Polet at the WWF Cat Tien National Park Conservation Project; Rajesh Shrestha at SNV Vietnam; Steven Swan at the FFI Hoang Lien Son Conservation Project; and Chris Turtle at the World Bank Forest Protection and Rural Development Project.