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  • Monitoring Activities of Coral Reefs in Vietnam

    Nguyen Van LongInstitute of Oceanography

  • MPA system

    in Vietnam

    16 MPAs approved by

    Prime Minister

    in 2010

    Total area is 270,271 ha, of

    which 169,617

    ha is marine

    6 existing MPAs

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    Hai Phong

    Da Nang

    Khanh Hoa

    Vung Tau

    Quang Ninh

    Co To

    Cat Ba

    Bach Long Vi

    Hai Van-Son Tra

    Quang Ngai

    Nha Trang

    Binh Thuan

    Phu Quy

    Con Dao

    Phu Quoc

    Cu Lao Cham

    Hon Cau

    Spratly Archipelagos

    Dao Tran

    Nui Chua

    Ly Son

    Thanh Hoa

    Hon Me

    Con CoQuang

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    Paracel Archipelagos

  • Monitoring

    system in

    Vietnam

    Established since 1998 at 8 sites

    and increased to

    11 sites in 2000

    to 53 sites in

    2006 and 33 sites

    in 2012.

    6 key areas regularly

    monitored

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    Vung Tau

    Quang Ninh

    Quang Ngai

    Nha Trang

    Binh Thuan

    Con Dao

    Phu Quoc

    Cu Lao Cham

    Hon Cau

    Spratly Archipelagos

    Nui Chua

    Thanh Hoa

    Quang

    Tri

    Paracel Archipelagos

    Van Phong

  • Parameters monitored

    Benthic covers: Living and non-living substrata Reef fishes: Reefcheck and local indicators. Macro-invertebrates: Reefcheck indicators. Impacts: Physical indicators (dynamite, anchoring,

    coral bleaching, COTS, Drupella snails).

  • Change in condition of coral reefs between time

  • Decline in hard coral cover from 1994 to 2012

  • Overall interval decline in hard coral cover

    between periods of time

  • Estimation of changes in reef conditions

    between 1994 and 2012

  • Impacts to coral reefs

    Overfishing Destructive fishing Sedimentation and pollution Aquaculture development Tourism development Outbreak of predators (COTS, snails) Bleaching & red tides

  • Coral bleaching in 2010

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    Thanh Hoa

    Nghe An

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    Quang Ninh

    Quang Ngai

    Nha Trang

    Binh Thuan

    Con Dao

    Phu Quoc

    Hon Cau

    Ninh Thuan

    Nui Chua

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    Paracel Archipelagos

    Kien Giang

    Coral bleaching

    Coral bleaching

  • Maintenance of monitoring of biophysical factors with the addition of some parameters (pH, CO2) at key locations of coral reefs and 3 sites in the national environmental monitoring system established since 1998.

    Development of new projects for research and monitoring of impacts from ocean acidification to coral reefs.

    Future Direction102

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  • THANK YOU !