5 working teams established for red-crowned crane conservation scheme in Vietnam's Dong Thap
Friday, August 25, 2023, 13:04 GMT+7
The administration of Dong Thap Province in southern Vietnam has set up five working teams to take charge of a draft scheme on conserving and raising red-crowned cranes at the province's Tram Chim National Park.
The establishment of the teams was announced at a meeting chaired by the provincial People's Committee on Thursday.
The five teams will be responsible for legal affairs, natural habitat restoration, personnel affairs, basic investment, information, and communications.
Dong Thap will also invest VND76 billion (US$3.2 million) in the project with the goal of conserving and raising 100 red-crowned cranes during the 2022-32 period, with at least 50 of them able to survive in their natural habitat at the national park, situated in Tam Nong District.
As part of the project, the province will fund activities to improve the cranes’ habitat, support organic agricultural production, and promote tourism.
Nguyen Phuoc Thien, vice-chairman of the provincial People's Committee and head of the project's steering board, urged Tram Chim National Park to create a specific plan to conduct assigned tasks, as well as team up with relevant agencies to complete the draft scheme.
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A delegation led by Le Quoc Phong, chief of the Party Committee in Dong Thap Province, southern Vietnam, earlier visited Tram Chim National Park and called on local farmers to grow organic rice to improve the natural habitat. Photo: Dang Tuyet / Tuoi Tre |
In the near future, the scheme’s steering board will join a virtual meeting with its Thai partners to track the handover of cranes to Dong Thap; consult experts and agencies in the field about a plan to restore the natural habitat; and regulate water levels at Tram Chim National Park.
The provincial administration previously signed a deal with the International Crane Foundation and the Vietnam Zoos Association in April this year to revive red-crowned crane flocks at Tram Chim National Park.
In related news, the national park hired the consulting unit which developed the design of cages to capture cranes and release them into the wild and sent a working team to Thailand to be trained in raising cranes.
Tram Chim National Park is among a few areas where red-crowned cranes have recently lived. Red-crowned cranes last flocked to the park in April 2021.
The dwindling number of crane flocks was attributed to habitat loss, a limited number of natural paddy fields, toxic emissions from agricultural production activities, and food scarcity.
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