Cat Tien National Park

Update news Cat Tien National Park

Wildcat sent to rescue centre

The Centre for Rescue, Conservation and Creatures Development at Cat Tien National Park in southern Dong Nai Province has received a rare leopard cat rescued from the Gia An 115 Hospital in HCM City.

Dong Nai River sand exploitation remains unchecked

Pham Hong Luong, director of Cat Tien, said for many years, the board of management of the national park has complained about the infringement of illegal sand exploiters on the Dong Nai River.

Danger looms over Cat Tien National Park as sand exploitation allowed

Cat Tien National Park is facing danger again as local authorities have re-allowed sand exploitation after two years.

 

Dong Nai promotes tourism

 VietNamNet Bridge – The southern province of Dong Nai plans to target Japanese, South Korean, Germany and Australian tourists for its tourism marketing strategy in the 2018-20 period.

New shiitake mushroom species found in Vietnam

 VietNamNet Bridge – A new species of Shiitake mushroom called Lentinula platinedodes has been found in Cat Tien National Park in Dong Nai and Lam Dong provinces.

Hunter turns from killer to conservationist

 VietNamNet Bridge – From hunting wild animals as young boy, one man has changed his view of the animals we share the planet with, and decided to protect them.

Adventure racers gear up for Ta Lai Trophy

 VietNamNet Bridge – Over 100 male and female racers will compete in the wilderness adventure race for the third Ta Lai Trophy in Cat Tien National Park in southern Dong Nai Province on April 16-17.

Dong Nai opposes road construction in national park

 Dong Nai People's Committee yesterday disapproved the construction of a road that would cut through Cat Tien National Park, at a meeting with concerned departments and park officials.

Ministry, local authorities disagree on road through Cat Tien Heritage site

While the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) believes opening a new road to serve the forest patrol and protection is necessary, residents of Dong Nai province think it is dangerous.

Dong Nai residents oppose road to be built through forest

VietNamNet Bridge - The Dong Nai province's People’s Committee opposes the project to build a road through National Cat Tien Park, saying that the road will badly affect the sustainability of the jungle.

Cultural traditions shift but don't fade

VietNamNet Bridge – North of HCM City and 13km from Cat Tien National Park, Ta Lai Commune's ethnic minority population has used traditional skills and dances learned from ancestors to make a living in tourism.

Vietnam's elephants on brink of extinction

 VietNamNet Bridge – Experts and conservationists are calling for increased funding and efforts to save the dwindling number of elephants in Viet Nam.

VND74 billion for protecting wild elephants in Dong Nai

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Planning and Investment has approved a VND74 billion budget for a project on urgent protection of wild elephants in the southern province of Dong Nai,

Experiencing farmstay in Dong Nai

 VietNamNet Bridge – Cat Tien Jungle Lodge is where travelers can join in the two-day-one-night tour departing from HCMC to check out the first farmstay in Dong Nai Province.

Cat Tien Park: An ecotourism paradise

 VietNamNet Bridge – Cat Tien National Park offers visitors an opportunity to discover nature and contemplate the beauty of mountains, glass-plots, forests of high trees, waterfalls and diversified ecosystems with rare plant and animal species.

Wildlife education added to syllabus

 VietNamNet Bridge – The last Javan rhino in Viet Nam was found dead at the Cat Tien National Park in April 2010: It had been shot by poachers for its horn, Le Thi Thuy Dung, a biology teacher at a HCM City school, tells her class.

Vietnam commits to fight wildtrade in London Declaration

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has committed to tougher laws and enforcement against the illegal trade in wild animals at a conference in London.

Controversial Dong Nai 5 and Dong Nai 6A hydropower projects rejected

 VietNamNet Bridge - Hundreds of hydropower projects, including Dong Nai 6 and 6A, the two projects had caused many mixed opinions about the environmental impacts, will be removed from the national hydropower development plan.

Government sniffing out sub-standard hydro projects

 VietNamNet Bridge – A series of substandard hydroelectricity projects are facing the chop.

PM decided to rescue Cat Tien national park

 VietNamNet Bridge – The government has requested the Ministry of Industry and Trade to check the plan on developing hydropower plants and exclude the Dong Nai 6 and Dong Nai 6A from the plan.