Vũ Quang National Park is a national park in Vũ Quang District,

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. This park contains biodiversity.

Saola The saola (''Pseudoryx nghetinhensis''), also called spindlehorn, Asian unicorn, or infrequently, Vu Quang bovid, is one of the world's rarest large mammals, a forest-dwelling bovine native to the Annamite Range in Vietnam and Laos. It was descr ...

and

Giant muntjac The giant muntjac (''Muntiacus vuquangensis''), sometimes referred to as the large-antlered muntjac, is a species of muntjac deer. It is the largest muntjac species and was discovered in 1994 in Vũ Quang, Hà Tĩnh Province of Vietnam and in ce ...

are species found in this park. Vũ Quang is a remote forested region of

, in which several new species of

deer Deer or true deer are hoofed ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. The two main groups of deer are the Cervinae, including the muntjac, the elk (wapiti), the red deer, and the fallow deer; and the Capreolinae, including the re ...

and antelope have been discovered since the 1990s. Some are so new that scientific description is still pending, although most have local names. The area was declared a forest reserve in 1986 and a National Park in 2002. The National Park has an area of 212 square miles (550 Square kilometers).

List of new animals

New animals from Vũ Quang and surrounding areas: *

or Vu Quang ox (''Pseudoryx nghetinhensis'') * Quang khem ("slow deer") *

(''Megamuntiacus vuquangensis'') - the world's largest

muntjac Muntjacs ( ), also known as the barking deer or rib-faced deer, (URL is Google Books) are small deer of the genus ''Muntiacus'' native to South Asia and Southeast Asia. Muntjacs are thought to have begun appearing 15–35 million years ago, ...

. * Mangden ("black deer") * Linh dương ("holy goat") (''Pseudonovibos spiralis'') - this or a similar species has been seen in

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, where its name is '' kting voar'' In addition, Vũ Quang is home to five new species of fish: * ''Parazacco vuquangensis'' * ''Crosscheilus vuha'' * ''Pararhoedus philanthropus'' * ''Pararhoedus equalitus'' * ''Oreoglanis libertus'' In addition to these animals, there are some tantalising glimpses of more: * a large, cream-coloured

slow loris Slow lorises are a group of several species of nocturnal strepsirrhine primates that make up the genus ''Nycticebus''. Found in Southeast Asia and bordering areas, they range from Bangladesh and Northeast India in the west to the Sulu Archip ...

seen in

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Zoo by Doug Richardson, assistant curator of mammals at London Zoo in 1994; * a black muntjac seen in Laos by Dr George Schaller of New York's wildlife Conservation society in 1994; * the skull and some meat from the Vietnamese warty pig ''Sus bucculensis'' was given to Dr Schaller on the same visit. The species was first described in 1892 but no physical evidence for it was ever secured. {{DEFAULTSORT:Vu Quang National Park Geography of Hà Tĩnh province National parks of Vietnam Protected areas established in 2002 2002 establishments in Vietnam