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Wednesday,Oct 14 2009, 03:58:59 AMStalking in the great outdoors, Vietnam
Tram Chim National Reserve is in Tam Nong district in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap.
Tram Chim National Reserve, Vietnam
The
wetland reserve covers a total area of 7,512 hectares and is home to
over 200 kinds of birds, ducks, chickens and more than 150 kinds of
fish, 130 species of plants and various kinds of amphibians, reptiles
and insects.
The area is also famous for its Redheaded cranes, which come back to
the wetlands in dry season, from roughly January to June and leave at
the onset of wet season.
A recent fire in Tram Chim burned up 21
hectares of cajuput forest and grass fields, further depleting the
cranes preferred habitat.
According to Huynh The Phien, director
of the Tram Chim national Reserve, a wide area of co nang grass, the
crane's favourite, has been re-planted in the reserve to try and ensure
the cranes continue to come back.
At this time of year, with the
cranes, the immense capujut forest covered with pink lotus flowers and
ponds filled with purple water-lilies the wetlands are simply
breathtaking.
You will need a pair of binoculars to see the cranes and the optimum time to go crane-watching is at sunrise or sunset.
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