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Chu Yang Sin National Park (Dak Lak) – Source: https://www.vncreatures.net/
Located in the two districts of Lak and Krong Bong, Dak Lak province, 60 km southeast of Buon Ma Thuot city, Chu Yang Sin National Park has an area of 58,947 hectares, including a high mountain system with many rare flora and fauna, an ideal destination for many researchers as well as domestic and foreign tourists.
Established in 2002 under the Prime Minister’s decision to upgrade the Chu Yang Sin Nature Reserve to Chu Yang Sin National Park, with the main task of protecting forest ecosystems and preserving rare flora and fauna. Here, 876 species of higher plants were initially discovered, representing the vegetation of subtropical to tropical climates, including 143 species endemic to Vietnam.
Forests at altitudes below 800m in the national park are semi-deciduous with typical tree species such as Lagerstroemia glabra and Black-veined Chieu Lieu. Evergreen forests at low altitudes have dominant species such as Sao Den, Dau Con Rai, and Dau Con Quay. Evergreen forests at altitudes above 800m have chestnuts, camphor trees, and coniferous trees such as Da Lat pine, flat-leafed pine, three-leafed pine, and Pơ-mu.
On the high peaks and slopes, there are dense forests consisting of Central Vietnamese bamboo, Chinese bamboo and bamboo. The coniferous forest is dominated by three-leaf pine, covering an area of over 10,600 hectares. A significant part of the National Park is bamboo forest with species of bamboo. Some rare tree species include rosewood, agarwood, and green cypress. There are important families such as Dipterocarpaceae, Lagerstroemia, Magnolia, Melaleuca, Cashew, Chestnut, Prunella, Melaleuca, etc. Among the plant species found here, there are over 300 species that can be used in medicine at different levels. The number of medicinal plants is concentrated in families such as Chrysanthemum, Acanthopanax, Mint, Coffee, Legume, etc.
Chu Yang Sin National Park is located in the endemic bird area of the Da Lat plateau, the last point of the Truong Son range in the Southern Central Highlands, a hotspot for biodiversity conservation. Here, scientists have found 8 bird species including red-faced fowl, black-headed fowl, grey-cheeked black-headed fowl, black-cheeked fowl, long-billed fowl, Ba Mountain fowl, yellow-throated sparrow, and grey-cheeked warbler.
Notably, the Nui Ba bird, which is endemic to the Da Lat Plateau, is currently at the level of global extinction. A total of 203 bird species and 46 mammal species have been recorded in the National Park, of which the Black-shanked Douc Pygathrix nigripes and the Yellow-cheeked Gibbon Hylobates gabriellae are the two species of most important conservation significance.
With the above initial survey data, Chu Yang Sin National Park deserves to be a standard model of the Central Highlands ecosystem, a place that will attract many scientists, researchers in botanical ecology as well as many domestic and foreign tourists to study, visit and admire the wild and mysterious beauty that nature has bestowed on Dak Lak.