Chu Yang Sin National Park

Update: 24/04/2008
Located in Lak and Krong Bong districts, Dak Lak Province, 60 km to the south-east of Buon Ma Thuot City, Chu Yang Sin National Park encompasses a range of high mountains in the northern part of the Southern Annamite mountains.

Chu Yang Sin mountain range consists of many mountain peaks, of which the 2,442m Cu Yang Sin peak is the highest one in Dak Lak. The Chu Yang Sin National Park covers 59,667ha, with tropical climate of high mountain. The topography has many slopes, facilitating varieties of forests with diversified flora and fauna, of which 44 species are rare and precious animals listed on Vietnam's Red Book such as big halcyons, great hornbills, and white headed hornbills.

Eight restricted-range bird species have been recorded at the park: Germain's peacock pheasant, Grey-crowned crocias, Black-hooded laughingthrush, Collared laughingthrush, White-cheeked laughingthrush, Short-tailed scimitar babbler, Grey-faced tit babbler and Yellow-billed nuthatch. The most important of these species, from a conservation perspective, is Grey-crowned crocias, which is classified as globally endangered.

A total of 46 mammal species have been recorded at Chu Yang Sin. Mammals of particular conservation significance recorded at the site include Black-shanked Douc and Yellow-cheeked Crested Gibbon.

If you are an adventurer or a researcher, come to Chu Yang Sin National Park to explore and discover the secrets of this land.

Source: TITC