Cat Tien becomes Vietnam’s first national park on IUCN green list
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on Friday added Cat Tien National Park in southern Vietnam to its esteemed Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas, making it the 72nd location to achieve the distinction. Cat Tien National Park, spanning more than 82,000 hectares in the provinces of Dong Nai, Lam Dong, and Binh Phuoc, and mostly in Dong Nai, is the second site in Vietnam and the first national park to receive this honor.
The Green List is a set of metrics measuring conservation success, initiated at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in 2016. To be included in the Green List, conservation sites must meet 17 criteria with 50 indicators. Over 300 conservation sites from 60 countries have applied.
Gia Chinh, Quynh Mai
