National park launches programme inspiring love for nature
The Cuc Phuong National Park kicked off an education programme on December 30 with a view to inspiring the love for nature in the community by helping them take part in the care, treatment, and health recovery for animals, especially the ones at risk of extinction.
Ninh Binh (VNA) –The Cuc Phuong National Park kicked off an education programme on December 30with a view to inspiring the love for nature in the community by helping themtake part in the care, treatment, and health recovery for animals, especially theones at risk of extinction.
The long-term programme, titled“Hanh trinh hoi sinh” (The journey of coming back to life), is carried out intandem with wildlife rescue and conservation programmes in the park, most ofwhich is located in the northern province of Ninh Binh.
In the first phase, it willenable organisations, families, and individuals to participate in theendangered primate rescue programme. It will be expanded to the turtle,meat-eating mammal, and pangolin conservation programmes in the second phase.
A representative of the parksaid each animal that is helped to come back to life could be initially thought tobe a small event, but it will help recover the population of that species inthe nature, and then part of a forest and even the biodiversity of an entireforest.
Establishedin 1962, Cuc Phuong is the first national park in Vietnam, covering the threeprovinces of Ninh Binh, Hoa Binh and Thanh Hoa.
Spanning over 22,000 hectares, the park is a typical tropicalrainforest that is home to a rich system of flora and fauna, includingcritically endangered species./.
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