Here is my submission on Vietnam.
Vietnam Conservation Center
This large complex will have three sections: a section with conservation breeding exhibits housing a variety of endangered species native to Vietnam, a section housing langurs and muntjac and a walk-through tropical greenhouse section with birds. I will discuss the sections briefly and list the species housed in them below.
Conservation breeding exhibits
This section will be a relatively basic industrial style concrete, glass and metal building with skylights, featuring viewing areas and walkways for a series of thirty exhibits that will be a lot less basic and much more elaborate than the building itself, and which will include glass-fronted and mesh-fronted aviaries, based on wetlands, coastal areas or forests, nocturnal exhibits for arboreal or ground-dwelling forest mammals, moist forest or wetland-based viviariums for amphibians and reptiles and aquariums with rocks, logs and some tough live plants for the fish. This section will also feature a nursery room for birds and a nursery room for amphibians and reptiles.
All species selected for this section, listed below, occur in Vietnam, either as a permanent or seasonal resident species or as a migratory species, and are listed as endangered or critically endangered on the IUCN Red List. As this area focuses on conservation breeding, of all species a breeding pair or a group of suitable composition for breeding will be housed.
1) Baer's Pochard (Aythya baeri)
2) Scaly-sided Merganser or Chinese Merganser (Mergus squamatus)
3) Spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea)
4) Nordmann's Greenshank or Spotted Greenshank (Tringa guttifer)
5) Asian Finfoot or Masked Finfoot (Heliopais personatus)
6) White-shouldered Ibis (Pseudibis davisoni)
7) Black-faced Spoonbill (Platalea minor)
8) Vietnamese crested argus pheasant or Vietnamese ocellated argus pheasant (Rheinardia ocellata)
9) White-throated Wren-babbler (Rimator pasquieri)
10) White-eared Night Heron (Gorsachius magnificus)
11) Annamite Striped Rabbit (Nesolagus timminsi)
12) Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla)
13) Owston's palm civet, Owston's banded civet or Owston's banded palm civet (Chrotogale owstoni)
14) Pygmy slow loris or Lesser slow loris (Nycticebus pygmaeus)
15) Psychedelic rock gecko (Cnemaspis psychedelica)
16) Vietnamese crocodile lizard (Shinisaurus crocodilurus vietnamensis)
17) Thorny tree frog (Gracixalus lumarius)
18) Vietnamese crocodile newt or Vietnamese knobby newt (Tylototriton vietnamensis)
19) Sterling's Toothed Toad (Oreolalax sterlingae)
20) Quang Binh pit viper or Truong Son pit viper (Trimeresurus truongsonensis)
21) Three horned-scaled pit viper (Protobothrops sieversorum)
22) Annam Pond Turtle or Vietnamese Pond Turtle (Mauremys annamensis)
23) Yellow-headed Temple Turtle (Heosemys annandalii)
24) Elongated Tortoise (Indotestudo elongata)
25) Four-eyed Turtle (Sacalia quadriocellata)
26) Black-breasted leaf turtle, Vietnamese leaf turtle or Black-breasted hill turtle (Geoemyda spengleri)
27) Southern Vietnamese box turtle (Cuora picturata)
28) Siamese Crocodile (Crocodylus siamensis)
29) Jullien's Golden Carp or Seven-striped Barb (Probarbus jullieni)
30) Giant pangasius, Paroon shark, Pangasid-catfish, or Chao Phraya giant catfish (Pangasius sanitwongsei)
2) Scaly-sided Merganser or Chinese Merganser (Mergus squamatus)
3) Spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea)
4) Nordmann's Greenshank or Spotted Greenshank (Tringa guttifer)
5) Asian Finfoot or Masked Finfoot (Heliopais personatus)
6) White-shouldered Ibis (Pseudibis davisoni)
7) Black-faced Spoonbill (Platalea minor)
8) Vietnamese crested argus pheasant or Vietnamese ocellated argus pheasant (Rheinardia ocellata)
9) White-throated Wren-babbler (Rimator pasquieri)
10) White-eared Night Heron (Gorsachius magnificus)
11) Annamite Striped Rabbit (Nesolagus timminsi)
12) Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla)
13) Owston's palm civet, Owston's banded civet or Owston's banded palm civet (Chrotogale owstoni)
14) Pygmy slow loris or Lesser slow loris (Nycticebus pygmaeus)
15) Psychedelic rock gecko (Cnemaspis psychedelica)
16) Vietnamese crocodile lizard (Shinisaurus crocodilurus vietnamensis)
17) Thorny tree frog (Gracixalus lumarius)
18) Vietnamese crocodile newt or Vietnamese knobby newt (Tylototriton vietnamensis)
19) Sterling's Toothed Toad (Oreolalax sterlingae)
20) Quang Binh pit viper or Truong Son pit viper (Trimeresurus truongsonensis)
21) Three horned-scaled pit viper (Protobothrops sieversorum)
22) Annam Pond Turtle or Vietnamese Pond Turtle (Mauremys annamensis)
23) Yellow-headed Temple Turtle (Heosemys annandalii)
24) Elongated Tortoise (Indotestudo elongata)
25) Four-eyed Turtle (Sacalia quadriocellata)
26) Black-breasted leaf turtle, Vietnamese leaf turtle or Black-breasted hill turtle (Geoemyda spengleri)
27) Southern Vietnamese box turtle (Cuora picturata)
28) Siamese Crocodile (Crocodylus siamensis)
29) Jullien's Golden Carp or Seven-striped Barb (Probarbus jullieni)
30) Giant pangasius, Paroon shark, Pangasid-catfish, or Chao Phraya giant catfish (Pangasius sanitwongsei)
Langur & Muntjac section
This section will be a large greenhouse featuring a large exhibit, partially surrounded by moats and partially by glass walls, with live trees and shrubs as well as dead trees and climbing structures, partially grassy and partially mulch-covered floors and wooden, feeding and enrichment platforms for the langurs and feeding racks for the muntjacs, thatched-roof shelters both at ground level and in the trees. This section will house a troop of Delacour's Langurs (Trachypithecus delacouri) and a small herd of Giant muntjacs or Large-antlered muntjacs (Muntiacus vuquangensis). Parts of the roof of this section will be able to be retracted during the warm months of the year to allow natural sunlight and air into the exhibit. There will be off-show holding areas for both species.
The Not-so-Silent Forest
This section will be a large, tall tropical forest greenhouse with a walk-through mixed exhibit with songbirds and other birds. This house will feature winding walkways, different elevation levels, a lush vegetation with a lot of live plants as well as some creeks, pools and rocky areas, several feeding areas and a suitable nesting areas for all species. Not all species featured here will be endangered species, but some are in fact endangered.
The name "Not-so-Silent Forest" references the Silent Forest Campaign, a campaign run in European zoos a few years ago focusing on the illegal trade in songbirds in Asia (see the link below). In many Asian countries, including Vietnam, songbirds are traded for the cultural customs of keeping these birds as pets for their songs and for competing with them in song contests, as well as for other reasons such as food and medicine, a trade which treats these birds as disposal commodities. They are generally kept in unsuitable conditions, generally don't live long as pets after capture and don't breed in captivity, and are soon replaced by other birds, leading to declining populations, eventually depriving forests of some of their natural sounds, hence the silent part. The educational displays in this section attention to the threat to biodiversity of the illegal songbird trade in Asia as well as to other environmental issues such as deforestation, climate change, illegal wildlife trade and unethical wildlife consumption in general and the environmental consequences of warfare.
Silent Forest – To address and mitigate the ongoing songbird extinction crisis in Asia
- White-winged wood duck (Asarcornis scutulata)
- Edwards's Pheasant or Vietnam Pheasant (Lophura edwardsi)
- Green Peafowl (Pavo muticus)
- Germain's peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron germaini)
- Golden-winged laughingthrush (Trochalopteron ngoclinhense)
- Grey-crowned crocias (Laniellus langbianis)
- Collared laughingthrush (Trochalopteron yersini)
- Yellow-breasted Bunting (Emberiza aureola)
- Chestnut-eared laughingthrush (Garrulax konkakinhensis)
- Vietnamese greenfinch (Chloris monguilloti)
- Silver-eared mesia (Leiothrix argentauris cunhaci)
- Vietnamese cutia (Cutia legalleni)
- Golden-fronted leafbird (Chloropsis aurifrons)
- Asian fairy-bluebird (Irena puella)
- Stripe-throated bulbul (Pycnonotus finlaysoni)
- Black-headed bulbul (Brachypodius melanocephalos)
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