Qualla: Pù Mát National Park https://qualla.com/pu-mat-national-park en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:18 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/6/7/pu-mat-national-park-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Pù Mát National Park https://qualla.com/pu-mat-national-park Pù Mát National Park: Introduction https://qualla.com/pu-mat-national-park/ Photo credit Rolf Müller (User:Rolfmueller), CC BY-SA 3.0. Gibbons are easier to hear than to see. They call at first light from high in the canopy, a rising, looping whoop that travels along ridgelines before the mist has lifted, and in the forests of Pù Mát that sound eventually added up to a number. In 2011, Conservation International reported that 455 northern white-cheeked crested gibbons were living inside the park, at high elevation and far from any settlement. For a species listed as critically endangered, the figure was startling — roughly two-thirds of every northern white-cheeked gibbon then known in Vietnam, and, by that report, the only confirmed viable population of the animal anywhere in the world.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/6/7/pu-mat-national-park-wp/w767-p-m-t-national-park-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Pù Mát National Park: High Slope https://qualla.com/pu-mat-national-park/ Photo credit Rolf Müller (User:Rolfmueller), CC BY-SA 3.0. In Thai, the language spoken by most people living around the park, Pù Mát means "high slope" — a plain description that undersells the ground it names. The park was created by prime ministerial Decision 174/2001/QĐ-TTg on 8 November 2001, upgrading an earlier preservation zone, ...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/6/7/pu-mat-national-park-wp/w767-p-m-t-national-park-high-slope.mp3 0:06 2 full Pù Mát National Park: The Roll Call of the Barely Known https://qualla.com/pu-mat-national-park/ Photo credit Rolf Müller (User:Rolfmueller), CC BY-SA 3.0. Pù Mát is one of the most important places in Vietnam for mammals, and the reason is a list of names that most people have never heard. Surveys by the Social Forestry and Nature Conservation project in Nghệ An confirmed five mammals endemic to Indochina living here: the northern ...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/6/7/pu-mat-national-park-wp/w767-p-m-t-national-park-the-roll-call-of-the-barely-known.mp3 0:06 3 full Pù Mát National Park: A Reserve With People In It https://qualla.com/pu-mat-national-park/ Photo credit Rolf Müller (User:Rolfmueller), CC BY-SA 3.0. Pù Mát is the core of something much larger. The Western Nghệ An Biosphere Reserve was designated in 2007 and recognised by UNESCO in 2011: roughly 1.3 million hectares across nine mountainous districts, sharing 440.8 kilometres of border with Laos, and the largest biosphere rese...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/6/7/pu-mat-national-park-wp/w767-p-m-t-national-park-a-reserve-with-people-in-it.mp3 0:06 4 full Pù Mát National Park: Snares https://qualla.com/pu-mat-national-park/ Photo credit Rolf Müller (User:Rolfmueller), CC BY-SA 3.0. What threatens the saola is not, in the main, the loss of forest. It is wire. Snares set across the hills for deer, pigs and civets catch whatever walks into them, and an animal with a population estimated at 50 to 300 individuals as of 2015 cannot absorb that. No trained scienti...

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