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Kien Giang focuses on eco-tourism in U Minh Thuong National Park

The southern province of Kien Giang is carrying out a project to develop eco-tourism in U Minh Thuong National Park for 2019-2020 with a vision to 2030, with a total investment of over 150 billion VND (6.46 million USD)
Kien Giang focuses on eco-tourism in U Minh Thuong National Park ảnh 1U Minh Thuong National Park became the eighth Ramsar site in Vietnam and the 2,228th in the world in 2016 (Photo: VNA)

Kien Giang (VNA) – The southern province of Kien Giang is carryingout a project to develop eco-tourism in U Minh Thuong National Park for2019-2020 with a vision to 2030, with a total investment of over 150 billionVND (6.46 million USD).

Vice Chairman of theprovincial People’s Committee Mai Anh Nhin said that the project aims topreserve natural resources and bio-diversity, while making the most appropriateuse of the forest’s potential so as to develop eco-tourism and environmentaleducation in U Minh Thuong National Park.

Through the project, theprovince will gradually complete the infrastructure system in the park andestablish attractive tours to make U Minh Thuong one of the outstandingnational parks in the Mekong Delta region and the world.

Located in An Minh Bacand Minh Thuan communes of U Minh Thuong district, the park has a total area of21,107 ha, including a 8,038-ha core zone; a 13,069-ha buffer zone; 365 ha of preventativeforest and 2,728 ha of production forest; and 9,976 ha of farming land,aquaculture area, and land for other purposes.

The park, home tovarious rare flora and fauna species, is considered a large natural museum onthe submerged ecosystem.

In 1994, the U MinhThuong cajuput forest became the U Minh Thuong Nature Reserve. Three yearslater, it was officially recognised as a national relic site. The U Minh ThuongNational Park was established in 2002. It was recognised as the fifth ASEANHeritage Park in Vietnam and the first ASEAN Heritage Park located on peatlandin the region in 2012, as well as the eighth Ramsar site in Vietnam and the2,228th in the world in 2016.

In recent years, thenational park has come to be known as an attractive eco-tourist destination inthe Mekong Delta region.

According to thenational park’s Deputy Director Nguyen Van Cuong, it welcomed 63,180 visitorsin 2018, up 5 percent year-on-year. In the first few months of 2019, over15,000 tourists visited the park.

The park has paidattention to diversifying and increasing the quality of its tourism products,with the aim of serving over 70,000 visitors this year. –VNA 
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