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      <title>Tà Đùng National Park: Introduction</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[For generations, the Ma people living at the foot of the mountain have sung epic stories about Tà Đùng — every stream named, every ridge given a character, every hollow holding a legend. That oral tradition outlasted colonial administrations, wartime upheaval, and the postwar scramble for timber. It is still being taught today by village elders like K'Cha, who at ninety-four years old was still passing down the forest's lore to younger generations. When Vietnam officially established Tà Đùng National Park on 8 February 2018, it was formalizing a protection that the Ma people had already been practicing in their own way for centuries.]]></description>
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      <title>Tà Đùng National Park: The Highest Ground in Đắk Nông</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tà Đùng covers 20,938 hectares of the highest mountain range in Đắk Nông province, sitting at a biological crossroads where the South Central Highlands meet the Southeast region. The park straddles National Highway 28, running about 45 kilometers southeast from the provincial cap...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Ma people — also called the Mạ — are an ethnic minority group of the Central Highlands whose relationship with this mountain predates written records. Their tradition of naming every stream, hill, and hollow in the Tà Đùng massif is not merely poetic; it is an ecological memo...]]></description>
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      <title>Tà Đùng National Park: A Forest That Feeds the Southeast</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tà Đùng is not simply a wildlife sanctuary; it functions as a water tower for millions of people downstream. The Đồng Nai River basin, which the park's riparian zones help regulate, supplies drinking water, irrigation, and hydroelectric power across Vietnam's densely populated So...]]></description>
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      <title>Tà Đùng National Park: Under Pressure</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The challenge facing Tà Đùng is one familiar to protected areas across Southeast Asia: the forest contains large, valuable hardwood trees, and that value attracts illegal loggers willing to push deep into the park. The remoteness that makes the highland forest so ecologically sig...]]></description>
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      <title>Tà Đùng National Park: A New National Park With Ancient Roots</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Upgraded from a nature reserve in 2018, Tà Đùng is one of Vietnam's newer national parks, but the land it protects has been tended and storied for far longer. The transition from reserve to national park came with stricter protections and greater resources, and the buffer zone ar...]]></description>
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