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It's all about Vietnam's creatures and plants

AnhBui

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Pretty excited found many valuable posts in ABV. Old but gold. Here is another one. Again I am so so lazy for translation :D

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Cyrtodactylus cattiennensis - discovered by a group of German and Vietnamese scientists - Sept. 2009


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Cassia javanica


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Sus scrofa

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Pycnonotus aurigaster - eggs

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Pycnonotus aurigaster


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Doritis pulcherrima

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Doritis pulcherrima - mutation

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Porpax elwesii

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Sphenomorphus buonloicus

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Spathoglottis affinis

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Suncus sp.
 
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More than an excitement to read the news
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New species
Camellia quangcuongii found in Bidoup national park - Nui Ba - Lam Dong

Abstracts here

A group of botanists at the University of Dalat, Vietnamese Academy of Forest Sciences and Bidoup National Park - Nui Ba discovered and announced a new plant species in Bidoup - Nui Ba National Park, Lam Dong. The discovery was published in the Journal of Japanese botany number: J. JPN. Flour. 91: 226-230 (2016) and named it Camellia quangcuongii to honour Truong Quang Cuong who discovered species distribution area in green broadleaf forest, 800 m height, in the area of Hon Giao mountain (boundary of Lam Dong and Khanh Hoa).

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Camellia quangcuongii - Photo: Luong Van Dung
 

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Nui Chua - Part of Africa part of Asia

It takes 30 minutes from national park administration office to research area
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First creature we see is Ceryle lugubris
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In this season you can see Buchanania reticulata flowers everywhere. In the next few hours flowers will close to prevent dehydration
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This is considered an unique symbol of national park. A big stone is on top of a smaller stone. They are surrounded by a vast and dry jungle of thorny plants
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Despite the heat we keep moving forward. Most of plants here are low plants with big base to form large canopy against strong and dry winds.
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Ahaetulla prasina - snake as large as a pen 1m long

At 180m above sea level, heat is much more extreme.

Very close to a small fountain we see Christensonia vietnamica
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PHƯỚC BÌNH NATIONAL PARK

Location: Ninh Thuan
Coordinates: 11o58’32” - 12o10’00” N
108o41’00” - 108o49’05” E
Nearby area: Bi Doup - Nui Ba National Park

Bio-diversity: Mainly dipterocaps forest. A combination of Dipterocaparceae and evergreen forest
With 327 species, 94 families, 25 orders. 50 species in Vietnam Red Data Book 2000 including 23 animal, 14 bird and 13 reptile and amphibian species
20 species in IUCN 2006 including 14 animal, 12 bird species
According to unofficial statistics there are 2025 species, 156 families, 584 genus of plants

Located at 60 km from Phan Rang
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Long and winding and bumping road
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Surrounded by old grown forest of rare and massive trees
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We stopped by a small and beautiful water fall
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Acanthosaura lepidogaster

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Calotes versicolor

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Macaca nemestrina

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Two forest rangers are moving a hug wood log, a poaching exhibit, to their guard station.

Deforestation progress is bringing many species in the edge of extinction
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Aeginetia indica

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Aethopyga goutdiae

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Bulbophyllum putidum

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Bulbophyllum repens

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Bos gaurus

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