Among the Vietnamese flora, Orchidaceae constitutes one of the families having the highest number of species within the flowering plants. In our opinion, the Vietnamese Orchidaceae encompasses around 140 genus and over 800 species. Being a second largest family of ...

Extinction is known to be one of the rules of nature. So why have people had to pay much concern in the disappearance of many species nowadays? The answer for this question is the interrelation between extinction and speciation. Speciation is a slow process gaining mutations of one species ...

As a part of PARC project at Ba Be National park and Na Hang Natures Reserve in the northeaster Vietnam, in April and May 2001 scientists from Birdlife international conducted a series of biodiversity surveys of the remaining forest blocks that lie outside of the two ...

Another new species of laughingthrush has recently been described from the central highlands. This brings to three the number of new bird species recently described from the central highlands. The description of this latest discovery appears in the March issue of the British Omithologists Club.