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Na Hang Nature Reserve, Tat Ke Sector 1997 12.3.6 Forestry Protection The sector is managed by Kiem Lam who enforce the legal protection of the reserve using laws established by central government in August 1991, managing the reserve to ensure its sustainability. The overall aims of Kiem Lam are: • To improve the protection of the reserve; • To decrease population growth rates in the reserve; • To reforest 80-90% of the areas currently unforested, with the help of local communities and before the year 2000. In order to achieve these aims, Kiem Lam liaises with the provincial, district and subdistrict committees and local communities. Kiem Lam had an annual budget of 89 million VND (approximately US$8000) in 1995. This is used to run the head quarters in Na Hang, together with five outposts situated in each of the sub-districts contained in the reserve. These are manned by a total of 12 staff who are responsible for patrolling the area, meeting with the subdistrict committee and villages, and for reporting to head office once a month. Kiem Lam has office equipment, a telephone, and access to a four-wheel drive jeep. It does not have two-way radios or binoculars, items which the head of the Office considered essential equipment which it can not afford. Finance to relocate villages also comes from the budget. Within the reserve, the following activities are prohibited: • Forest clearance for agriculture; • Timber and forest resource collection; • Hunting animals; • Disturbing wildlife. To enforce these rules, Kiem Lam has the power of prosecution and confiscation. However, in practice such powers are only used if the misdemeanour is considered large-scale or problematic. It was not established how many prosecutions or cases of misdemeanour have occured. Frontier-Vietnam Environment Research Report 9 50
Na Hang Nature Reserve, Tat Ke Sector 1997 12.3.7 Ecotourism potential Tourism is seen as a very lucrative source of foreign investment and is a growing industry in Vietnam. However, at the present time there are no known cases of tourists visiting either sector of the Na Hang reserve. This gives the reserve managers an ideal opportunity to develop its tourist industry in a sustainable way that attracts the optimal numbers of tourists to the area without compromising the quality of the reserve. Na Hang's current lack of tourism may attract tourists seeking tranquility, remoteness and unspoilt scenery; however, it is similar in character to Cuc Phuong and Cat Ba National Parks (Cox, 1994) which are already well established tour destinations, with good transport links and tourist facilities. At present, the potential for back-packing or sight-seeing tourists at Na Hang appears limited. However, there is an opportunity to attract special interest groups, such as international ornithological or botany clubs, or dedicated ecotourists. These could provide a valuable source of income for the reserve, providing local employment (for forest guides and workers in services), whilst causing only the minimum of disturbance to the forest itself. 12.3.7.1 Specialist ecotourism; bird groups Na Hang Nature Reserve has a high diversity of birds, including rare and endemic forms with the potential to attract tourists with a special interest in birds. In the past years, a small number of specialist bird tour groups have visited Vietnam. They are usually made up of experienced observers and are led by a professional leader. Bird groups cause little disturbance to an area because they involve small groups and are only resident for short periods of time. Numbers of visitors could be controlled and directed away from prime areas of the reserve, for example, where the Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey is found. Among the Kiem Lam rangers and local people there are individuals with a good knowledge of both the reserve and its birds. The most experienced could be chosen from both sources to act as guides. Most of the other basic services required by ecotourist groups could be provided in Na Hang town. The attraction of bird groups would generate revenue for the reserve and local people, which Cox (1994) lists as an overriding priority. The principle behind attracting special interest bird groups is to attract limited numbers of high value tourists, thus bringing valuable revenue with limited disturbance. For example, Fillon et al. (1992) (in Ceballos-Lascurain, 1996) estimated Frontier-Vietnam Environment Research Report 9 51
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