Kon Ha Nung Plateau covers more than 413,500 hectares. Its core zone is Kon Ka Kinh National Park and Kon Chu Rang Nature Reserve. The reserve has about 15,900 hectares of special-use forests, a transition ecosystem between the east and west of the Truong Son Mountain range. It is home to rare, rich and diverse flora and fauna. |
Kon Ha Nung's flora ecosystem mainly consists of lowland and medium mountain subtropical evergreen forest. A part of the area is semi-evergreen and dipterocarp forest. The reserve is also home to over 860 groups of fauna, many of them listed in Vietnam’s Red Book. |
The reserve has 380 species of wild animals, including 80 mammals, 228 birds and 38 reptiles. Gray-shanked douc, black-crested gibbons, great hornbills, and masked finfoots are among its protected animals. |
Inside the reserve, there are 12 waterfalls at a height of over 15 meters in the middle of primeval forests. Due to their seclusion, these waterfalls remain pristine and have yet to be overrun by tourist hordes. |
The journey to conquer Hang En Waterfall in K'bang District, Gia Lai Province is really a challenging task since the path is very dangerous for outsiders to navigate on their own. |
A 50-meter-high ecological observatory in the middle of the nature reserve. |
Cows raised by members of the Ba Na ethnic minority. The buffer zone of the reserve is home to 17 families of the Ba Na ethnic minority whose livelihood mainly depends on livestock and forest resources. |
The Vietnam - Russia Tropical Center, which works on protecting forest areas across the reserve. |
Photos by Tran Hoa, Phan Nguyen, Vietnam News Agency