Xem chim du lịch sinh thái cao chịu trách nhiệm và giáo dục của du lịch tự nhiên giúp bảo tồn môi trường tự nhiên và các giá trị văn hóa của khu vực địa phương, phát triển cộng đồng và mang lại lợi ích kinh tế đáng chú ý. | VNU Journal of Science Earth Sciences 27 2011 89-97 Developing bird watching ecotourism combined with education and natural conservation Nguyen Lan Hung Son Le Trung Dung Nguyen Thanh Van Hanoi National University of Education 136Xuan Thuy Hanoi Vietnam Received 8 March 2011 received in revised form 7 April 2011 Abstract. Bird watching ecotourism is highly-responsible and educative kind of nature tourism which helps conserve natural environment and culture values of the local area develop community and bring about remarkable economic benefits. Birds are seen everywhere but especially found with many species in nature reserves and national parks. There are 30 National Parks 67 Nature Reserves more than 50 Bird Sanctuaries in Vietnam and more 16 Marine Protected Area are planned to be established until 2015 which has great potentials to develop bird watching ecotourism. In order to develop this tourism model in nature reserve it is necessary to improve personnel s capability and to set up database for identifying wild birds in each area. Conserving precious and specific bird species characteristic communities for habitats plays an important role in attracting tourists to Vietnam for bird watching. Some database in analyzing bioacoustics in some specific wind season tropical forests in Vietnam are presented in this paper such as Orange-bellied leafbird Silver-eared mesia and Indian cuckoo. Keywords ecotourism bird watching nature reserve bioacoustics. 1. Introduction Being located in the tropical region having a great variety of typical sceneries and ecological systems with a culture rich in ethnical identities of the 54 fraternal groups Vietnam has a great potential for the development of tourism in general and ecotourism in particular 1 . By far a large number of natural resources for tourism such as the National Parks NP Nature Reserve NR aquatic marine conservation areas. have been put to use for development of Corresponding author. Tel. 84-4-38346828. E-mail .
