Friday, 10/03/2017 18:14 (GMT+7)
The Quang Nam provincial People’s Committee has adopted the establishment of an elephant conservation project on an area of nearly 19,000 hectares in Phuoc Ninh and Que Lam communes, Nong Son district.
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Accordingly, the conservation area includes 23 sub-zones, including over 13,400 hectares of strict protection, over 5,500 hectares of the ecological recovery, and nearly 25,000 hectares of buffer zone, which lies in 22 villages in 5 districts.
Le Tri Thanh, Vice Chairman of the Quang Nam provincial People’s Committee, stressed that the establishment of the elephant conservation aims to conserve and develop the Asian elephant species in Vietnam, contributing to realizing the Government’s targets in protecting the environment and biodiversity, and sustainably developing wildlife resources.
Quang Nam province plans to protect, maintain and develop a population of 5-7 elephant individuals living in the locality, safeguard their living habitat, and restore and develop living environment and food to receive single elephant individuals from other areas.
The project will use over VND128 billion until 2030./.
Compiled by BTA