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perhaps by using more stringent definitions for ‘natural forest’, FREC land use maps
indicate only 5,715ha of natural forest, a small proportion of the total proposed area
of 18,555ha. Their proposal adjusts the boundary to exclude large tracts of agriculture
and scrub land from the north of the Nature Reserve and include approximately
5,600ha of Cao Son and Vu Muon communes, Bach Thong district (part of Kim Hy
commune prior to 1997), which would contain 3,600ha of the 9,795ha of natural
forest within the new boundary. The total area within the revised Nature Reserve
boundaries proposed by FREC is 17,154ha (Tordorff et al, 2000). Both the original
and revised boundaries are shown on all maps in this report.
2.1.5 Past Studies of the Region
The scientific appraisal accompanying the proposal for the Reserve was based upon
scientific surveys undertaken by FIPI and botanists from the Xuan Mai Collage of
Forestry, Hanoi. A summary of their findings is given in Figures 2.1 and 2.2. The full
report with lists of species is unpublished and not widely available.
Taxonomic group Families Genera Species_____
Plants 148 522 792
Mammals 26 n/i 67
Birds 50 n/i 143
Reptiles 12 n/i 35
Amphibians 6 n/i 21
Figure 2.1. Summary of the findings of species surveys for the scientific appraisal of
Kim Hy proposed Nature Reserve in 1997 (FIPI, 1997).
Phylum Family Genus Species
Yeopodiophyta 2 2 4
Polypodiophyta 17 26 45
Pynophyta 4 6 7
Magnoliopsida 193 396 587
Liliopsida 22 92 149
Total 148 522 792
Figure 2.2. Plant diversity by phyla in Kim Hy proposed Nature Reserve
(Vu Van Canh, in FIPI, 1997).
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