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| The Cat Tien National Park |
In Thua Thien-Hue province, the companies belonging to the Ministry of Transport are speeding up the clearing of 49 hectares of forest in the core area of the Bach Ma National Park to make room for a highway.
A 4-lane road that links Thua Thien-Hue and Da Nang City will ‘slice’ through the park.
In late 2015, local newspapers reported that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) gave a license to build a road through the Cat Tien National Park.
Some days later, they reported that the project implementation was suspended because of strong opposition from the public and problems in administrative procedures.
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In Thua Thien-Hue province, the companies belonging to the Ministry of Transport are speeding up the clearing of 49 hectares of forest in the core area of the Bach Ma National Park to make room for a highway. |
In the north, experts have expressed concern about the building of a cable system on Fansipan, saying that it would affect ‘Indochina’s Rooftop’ and the Hoang Lien National Park.
More and more road projects that go through national parks and natural sanctuaries have been draw up recently, threatening the local ecosystems and landscapes. The story about exchanging biodiversity conservation for economic development has become hotter than ever.
Experts pointed out that roads, once they are built, will split the habitat for animals. There are the animals and plants which live under trees’ canopies of the forest.
If a road is opened, the trees will be chopped down and the light will reach areas where the species live.
Some of them will have to change to adapt to the new circumstances, while others, which cannot change, will die. A lot of problems will arise including the invasion of germs and exotic harmful species.
In the long term, the impact will gradually change biodiversity characteristics or destroy the ecosystem in areas.
Two years ago, the project on building Dong Nai 6 and Dong Nai 6A hydropower plants on Dong Nai River was stopped after experts, the public and the Cat Tien National Park’s officials raised their protest against the project.
However, in most cases, projects will be implemented under decisions by local authorities, while environmentalists’ voices are ignored.
Vietnam has had to pay a heavy price for hydropower plants and roads.
The Tri An hydropower plant was built 30 years ago, but its lessons remain fresh.
The plant covered 2,000 hectares of forestland, but in fact, 10,000 hectares of special use forest were destroyed.
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