Authors: Nguyen Lan Hung, Son; Co-Author: 2011 (Bird watching ecotourism is highly-responsible and educative kind of nature tourism
which helps conserve natural environment and culture values of the local area, develop communit y
and bring about remarkable economic benefits. Birds are seen ever ywhere but especially found
with many species in nature reserves and national parks. There are 30 National Parks, 67 Nature
Reserves, more than 50 Bird Sanctuaries in Vietnam, and more 16 Marine Protected Area are
planned to be established until 2015, which has great potentials to develop bird watching
ecotourism. In order to develop this tourism model in nature reserve, it is necessary to improve
personnel’s capability and to set up database for identifying wild birds in each area. Conserving
precious and specific bird species, characteristic communities for habitats plays an important role
in attracting tourists to Vietnam for bird watching. Some database in analyzing bioacoustics in
some speci fic wind season tropical forests in Vietnam are presented in this paper such as Orangebellied leafbird, Silver-eared mesia and Indian cuckoo.)
Authors: Nguyen Lan Hung, Son; Co-Author: 2011 (The diversity of bird species is of special importance as it can create responsive and adaptive behaviours among the whole animal population in wild environment. For this reason, the frequent making of inventory lists of bird species helps assess and evaluate the current status of forest resources in natural conservation areas which are inherently under human pressures in our country. During the two years (2009 - 2010) of the study conducted in Huu Lien Nature Reserve in Lang Son province, records have been made of 168 bird species belonging to 117 genus, 54 families, 17 orders. Of these, 9 bird species are rare and of high value of genetic preservation. Discussions have been held on the data for classification and arrangement of bird lists. This regional avifauna is characterized as typical of the lime stone mountain ecology in the Northeast of Vietnam along the border with China. The illegal activities of timbering Buretiodendron hsienmu take place at high frequency are making it a threat to the conservation of the diversity of bird species in this area.)
