Cat Ba National Park
Cát Bà National Park is an important national park in northern Vietnam.
Cát Bà is situated in Ha Long Bay, is administered by the city of Hai Phong,
and belongs to the Cát Hải District of Hai Phong.
The park is located approximately 30 km east of Haiphong, covering about
263 km2 and comprising 173 km2 land and 90 km2
of inshore water.
Cat Ba National Park is a special-use forest in Vietnam, the world's
biosphere reserve.
There is a forest type is the type of evergreen tropical rain forest,
but due to terrain conditions, land and water regimes, so there is some kind of
secondary forests: forests on limestone mountains, mangrove forests along the
island , freshwater marsh forest on the mountain. Forests here are also many
unique types of forests as ecological associations Kim Affairs (in the region
near the peak of Ngu Lam) and the single best (Frog Pond area).
Botanical ingredients are 741 different species, many trees you as son
of, while flowers, lim flashed, chestnut flower delivery needle, white type,
for the great, the world only in the Himalayas, flooded plants 23 saltwater
species, 75 species of seaweed, 199 species of phytoplankton.
Garden area is available on 282 species including 32 mammals, 78 birds,
20 reptiles and amphibians, 11 species of amphibians. Special Cat Ba langur
species (scientific name: Trachypithecus poliocephalus poliocephalus
subspecies), i.e. the golden langur (a number of documents that white-headed
langur is wrong, scientific name: Trachypithecus poliocephalus leucocephalus
subspecies found only in China) is Narrow endemic species of Cat Ba, currently
only 66 individuals, only distributed in the coastal mountains (according to
data provided by FPD Cat Ba National Park, 2007), 98 species of zooplankton,
196 species of marine fish, 177 species of coral. Source: Wikipedia
