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Wildlife of Vietnam. The wildlife of Vietnam is rich in flora and fauna as reflected by its unique biodiversity. Saola, rare and antelope-like animal categorized under the bovine subfamily, was found in 1992 in Vũ Quang National Park. In the 1990s, three other muntjac species, the deer-like Truong Son muntjac (found in Bạch Mã National Park ...
220,055 ha (849.64 sq mi) Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng (Vietnamese: Vườn quốc gia Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng) is a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Bố Trạch and Minh Hóa districts of central Quảng Bình Province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam, about 500 km south of Hanoi. The park borders the Hin Namno National ...
Panax vietnamensis var. fuscidiscus K.Komatsu, S.Zhu & S.Q.Cai. Panax vietnamensis or Vietnamese ginseng[1] (Vietnamese: Sâm Ngọc Linh, lit. ' Ngọc Linh ginseng') is a species of the ginseng genus Panax. In Vietnam the species, prized in herbal medicine, is commercially very valuable and now considered threatened. [3][4]
Ochna integerrima. (Lour.) Merr. Ochna integerrima, [1] popularly called yellow Mai flower (Vietnamese: mai vàng, hoa mai, hoàng mai in southern Vietnam, although in the north, mai usually refers to Prunus mume), is a plant species in the genus Ochna (/ ˈɒknə /) and family Ochnaceae. In the wild, it is a small tree or shrub species (2-7 m ...
The Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST; Vietnamese: Viện Hàn lâm Khoa học và Công nghệ Việt Nam) is the largest and most prominent research institute in Vietnam. It was founded on 20 May 1975 as the Vietnam Academy of Science, then subsequently assumed its current name in 2008. Its infrastructure spans Hanoi, Ho Chi ...
Insects live in a world of motion. This leaf-footed bug climbs wind blown grass and flies off. Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs ...
With only 950,000 known non-insects, if the actual total number of insects is 5.5 million, they may represent over 80% of the total, and with only about 20,000 new species of all organisms being described each year, most insect species likely will remain undescribed, unless species descriptions greatly increase in rate.
Cát Tiên National Park (Vietnamese: Vườn quốc gia Cát Tiên) is a national park located in the south of Vietnam, in the provinces of Đồng Nai, Bình Phước and Lâm Đồng. It is approximately 150 km north of Ho Chi Minh City. [2] It has an area of about 720 km 2 and protects one of the largest areas of lowland tropical forests ...