VietNamNet Bridge - Many rare and precious animal species live in the forests on Son Tra Peninsula in Da Nang. 



Son Tra is under strict control not only by state management agencies, but local people and the public as well.

It was the locals who discovered that some forest owners, who are assigned to take care for forests, hired workers to fell trees in the forest, arbitrarily opened roads and destroyed the flora structure.

After locals and press agencies reported about the case, appropriate agencies sent staff to the site to remove the tents set by workers in the forest. 

Son Tra is under strict control not only by state management agencies, but local people and the public as well.

Tran Van Thanh and Le Phuoc Bay, head and deputy head of the Son Tra district’s Forest Rangers’ Unit were dismissed from their duties because they did not know about deforestation.

Son Tra Peninsula has become a sensitive place, while anyone who ‘touches’ Son Tra would be condemned by society.

Son Tra covers an area of 4,439 hectares of land, located just 10 kilometers far from the Da Nang City’s center on the east. It is considered a precious gem with long coast and diversified flora and fauna systems. 

Tran Huu Vy, director of Green Viet, a biodiversity conservation center, called Son Tra a ‘treasure’, a ‘green lung’ of Da Nang.

The forest on Son Tra is the living environment for many red-shanked douc families with hundreds of individuals.

Da Nang’s Mayor, on the occasion of the 2016 Tet holiday, sent greeting cards to agencies with the message of calling everyone to protect the rare and precious animal.

More than 55,000 envelopes with the images of red-shanked douc and the call for protecting the rare animal were also delivered to civil servants on the occasion.

A report showed that over 300 red-shanked douc, more than 985 flora species and 378 flora species now live in the forests of Son Tra.

The Red-shanked douc is one of 25 primate species in Vietnam. The animals only live in the wild in three countries of Indochina.

In Vietnam, red-shanked doucs live in the forests in the provinces from Nghe An to Kon Tum and Gia Lai. The population of douc on Son Tra has been thoroughly researched, and is the easiest accessible.

Vy warned that if deforestation continues, this will destroy the natural structure of the flora composition and change the humidity on the earth surface, which will lead to the loss of the habitat for some animal species which search for food such as jungle fowl, wild boar, turtles and snakes.


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