. Carbon and biodiversity. A demonstration atlas. . .> "• -"'^ <* s 0 50 100 150 200 250 & entire length of Viet Nam, largely tracking the distribution of rain and monsoon forest, but are particularly prevalent in the carbon rich soils in the south in the delta of the Mekong River Viet Nam is high in biodiversity and endemicity, with more than species of higher vascular plants, and hundreds of recorded species of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, and reptiles, including several new species only recently discovered. The high biodiversity areas shown in green on the de
. Carbon and biodiversity. A demonstration atlas. . .> "• -"'^ <* s 0 50 100 150 200 250 & entire length of Viet Nam, largely tracking the distribution of rain and monsoon forest, but are particularly prevalent in the carbon rich soils in the south in the delta of the Mekong River Viet Nam is high in biodiversity and endemicity, with more than species of higher vascular plants, and hundreds of recorded species of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, and reptiles, including several new species only recently discovered. The high biodiversity areas shown in green on the demonstration map are based on Viet Nam's Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs; Birdlife Indochina et at. 2004], which have been identified at the national level using simple, internationally defined criteria, based on their importance in maintaining populations of species of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, freshwater fish and plants (see page 18 for further details on KBAs). The map shows that much of Viet Nam's high biodiversity land (58%] is also high in carbon, and 19 per cent of the area with the highest carbon stocks is also important for biodiversity. Therefore, actions to reduce emissions from land use change in Viet Nam could have significant biodiversity benefits. In total. Gt of carbon is stored in the areas with high values of both carbon and biodiversity. Protected areas, shown on the map in orange, cover about 30 per cent of the land area that is of high importance for biodiversity. However, they overlap with only 9 per cent of the area with the highest carbon stocks. The diagram (below] shows that Viet Nam's protected area network covers 32 per cent of the land area that has been classified as having high values for both carbon and biodiversity. Area protected 100 - 75 ;£50 25 8,480km; 5,697km' 1 1 High carbon land High biodiversity land High carbon and high biodiversity la d 20. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images th
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