Friday, 8/11/2024

biodiversity

Nui Chua National Park - where marine biodiversity safeguarded

Nui Chua National Park - where marine biodiversity safeguarded

The marine reserve of Nui Chua National Park, the core of the Nui Chua World Biosphere Reserve in Ninh Thuan province, houses 310 coral species belonging to 60 genera and 15 families of reef-building hard corals. Among them, there is one new genus (Scapophyllia) recorded for the western part of the East Sea, and 11 species recorded for the first time in Vietnam.

Vietnam actively participates in int’l commitments on biodiversity

Vietnam has made numerous efforts towards comprehensively addressing biodiversity threats since joining the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1994. Such efforts include improving legal frameworks, actively engaging in cooperation, learning from international experience, and creating conditions for the development of domestic biodiversity conservation facilities.