Vietnam will apply for the inscription of the Ba Be National Park on the Ramsar
List of Westlands of International Importance, the government said Saturday.

A report on the government’s website said the Ministry of
Natural Resources will apply for the inscription in accordance with the Ramsar
Convention – an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable
utilization of wetlands.

The Ba Be National Park in the northern
province of Bac
Kan was established in 1992, with
the 500-hectare Ba Be Lake at its center. The park is home to 299 animal
species and 417 plant species.

In 1995, the lake was named one of 20 in the world that
needed to be protected at a global lake
convention in the US.
The lake is also one of the Heritage Parks of the regional bloc ASEAN, the
government’s report said.

The Ramsar Convention came into force in 1975. There are now
160 contracting parties, with Vietnam
joining in 1989. The Ramsar List includes 1,904
sites, known as Ramsar Sites, with a total surface of more than 186.5
million hectares.

Source: Thanh Nien