by Susan Lumpkin, GTI Consultant

Park entrance

Monsoonal rains nearly drowned out a Global Tiger Initiative team’s visit to Chu Mom Ray National Park, one of Vietnam’s highest priority areas for the recovery of wild tigers in that Southeast Asian nation. But after a delayed flight out of Hanoi and an unplanned stop in Danang for emergency plane repairs, Keshav Varma, Andrey Kushlin, John Seidensticker, and I landed in the Central Highlands city of Pleiku and headed for the park about 60 kilometers away. We were accompanied by Vuong Tien Manh of the Vietnam Forestry Administration.

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