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Restoration of the Tram Chim National Wildlife Preserve, Vietnam

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Stretching about 200 km between the border of Kampuchea and the South China Sea, nine branches of the mighty Mekong River (meaning nine dragons) spread across a wide and fertile delta where three crops of rice can be harvested each year (see Figs. 6.1 and 6.2). The Mekong originates in the mountains of western China where spring melts and rains, together with summer monsoons of the tropics, combine to flood the banks from June through October. The annual cycle, interacting with the daily ebb and flow of the tides, created ideal habitats for both fresh and saltwater wildlife. But today the Mekong Delta is one of the heavily populated regions of the earth. Most of the forests and wetlands have been transferred into cities and farms. The delta is Vietnam's food basket (Torrell and Salamanca 2005).

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Smardon, R. (2009). Restoration of the Tram Chim National Wildlife Preserve, Vietnam. In: Sustaining the World's Wetlands. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-49429-6_6

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