Nature

Vietnam has two World's Natural Heritage sites: Halong Bay and Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park and 6 World's biosphere reserves including: Can Gio Mangrove Forest, Cat Tien, Cat Ba, Kien Giang, Red River Delta, Western Nghe An.

Biodiversity

Vietnam is in the Indomalaya ecozone.

According to chapter 1 in National Environmental Present Condition Report 2005- Biodiversity Subject of Vietnam Environment Protection Agency, in species diversity, Vietnam is one of 25 countries having high level in biodiversity all over the world, is ranked 16th of biologically diverse level (having 16% world's species) . 15,986 flora was identified of which 10% was endemic . Statistic says that there are 307 nematodes, 200 oligochaeta, 145 acarina, 113 springtails, 7750 insects, 260 reptiles, 120 amphibians, 840 birds and 310 mammals of which 100 birds and 78 mammals are endemic . Vietnam also have 1438 fresh water microalgae (9,6% species in the world) . It is defined that there are 794 aquatic invertebrate and 2458 sea fish . In recent years, there have been 13 genera, 222 species, 30 taxa of flora newly described and 6 mammals have been discovered such as the saola, giant muntjac, Edwards's Pheasant, Tonkin Snub-nosed Langur, livistona halongensis, geothelphusa vietnamica, etc . In agricultural genetic diversity, Vietnam is one of 12 world's original cultivar centers . Vietnam National Cultivar Gene Bank is preserving 12,300 cultivars of 115 species .

In chapter 4 of that report, it is said that Vietnam government spent 49.07 million USD for biodiversity in 2004 and have established 126 conservation areas including 28 national parks .

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