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Wildtour in the Media

Media recognition over the years

A timeline of public articles covering Wildtour’s role in birdwatching tourism, conservation, biodiversity research, wildlife photography, ecological rice and responsible ecotourism.

Featured coverage

From pioneering birding tours to conservation-based ecotourism

These selected articles help tell the public story of Wildtour: a Vietnamese organisation connecting specialist birding tourism with field science, conservation communication and community-based nature experiences.

2026 Open
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Vietnam Birdrace 2026

Vietnam BirdRace 2026 will take place from May 8 to 10 at Cat Tien National Park, continuing to connect birdwatchers, nature lovers and wildlife photographers through a competition in which participants document bird species through photography within a s

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Articles by year

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2026

Tài liệu/Handbook Vietnam BirdRace 2026

Participant handbook for competing teams, invited guests, and supporting partners at Cat Tien National Park. Sổ tay thành viên tham dự dành cho các đội thi, khách mời và đối tác đồng hành tại Vườn Quốc gia Cát Tiên.

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Vietnam BirdRace 2026 - EN

Vietnam BirdRace 2026 is a community event that brings together birders, nature lovers and wildlife photographers through a team-based race to document bird species by photograph within a defined time window. In addition to the main competition, the event

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Vietnam BirdRace 2026 - VN

Vietnam BirdRace 2026 là sự kiện kết nối cộng đồng yêu chim, yêu thiên nhiên và nhiếp ảnh động vật hoang dã thông qua một cuộc đua ghi nhận loài chim bằng hình ảnh trong khung thời gian quy định. Bên cạnh phần thi chính, sự kiện còn tạo không gian giao lư

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2025

Vietnam Wildlife Photography Contest – “The Rhythm of Nature”

Organized by the Vietnam Wildlife Photography Club (VWPC), this annual art and photography event brings together nature-loving photographers to capture vivid moments of Vietnam’s wild flora and fauna in their natural habitats. The contest invites photogr

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Birdrace - Một cú hích cho bảo tồn đa dạng sinh học tại Việt Nam

Khi đội Ô Tác nâng cao chiếc cúp vô địch tại Vườn quốc gia Bidoup Núi Bà, đó không chỉ là kết thúc của một cuộc thi mà còn là dấu hiệu cho một khởi đầu quan trọng: sự hình thành một cộng đồng quan sát chim (birdwatching) ngày càng lớn mạnh tại Việt Nam.

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2nd Vietnam Birdrace - Thông báo từ ban tổ chức

Với mong muốn tạo ra một sân chơi bổ ích, sáng tạo và nhân văn cho cộng đồng birders đồng thời đóng góp tích cực vào việc nâng cao ý thức bảo tồn thiên nhiên trong xã hội, đóng góp hơn nữa vào quảng bá du lịch Việt Nam, CUỘC ĐUA CHỤP ẢNH CHIM HOANG DÃ VIỆ

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Vietnam BirdRace 2025

Vietnam Birdrace lần thứ 2 là sự kiện kéo dài 2 ngày, mở rộng cho cả người quan sát chim và nhiếp ảnh gia, với nội dung đua chụp ảnh được nhiều loài chim nhất trong thời gian diễn ra cuộc đua. Sự kiện sẽ có hạng mục riêng dành cho thiếu nhi nhằm khuyến kh

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2024

HỘI THẢO PHÁT TRIỂN DU LỊCH SINH THÁI TẠI VƯỜN QUỐC GIA, KHU BẢO TỒN VÙNG ĐỒNG BẰNG SÔNG CỬU LONG

Cơ hội, hách thức, và nhu cầu hỗ trợ phát triển, cải thiện và thực hiện các đề án du lịch sinh thái tại các khu bảo tồn, rừng phòng hộ và các khu bảo vệ cảnh quan vùng Đồng bằng Sông Cửu Long

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2021

Webinar: Conservation Shorebirds in Vietnam

Vietnam’s Mekong Delta is one of the most densely populated parts of the country. Formerly covered by vast areas of wetlands, the Delta’s environment is today heavily altered. However, our work shows that there are still areas of mangrove and coastal mudf

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Recruitment: Project manager – Mekong Delta shorebird conservation

Under Phase II of the Project, we are seeking a project manager with a strong background in nature conservation and has experience with working with diverse stakeholders to implement conservation activities, in partnership with local people, scientists an

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2019

Hot news: Spoon-billed Sandpiper has arrived Mekong delta's coast

On our survey today (October 22, 2019), we found 2 Spoon-billed Sandpiper at Binh Dai, Ben Tre. It is first record at this location, previous records were in Ba Tri (2003) and Go Cong (2011-2019).

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2018

WILDTOUR T-shirts now are available for souvenir

Thank you very much for your supporting us, we are pleased to send one of these T-shirt as our gift for those who have birded with us in the past or who are coming. To get the T-shirt accordingly, please give comment about your size, colour and bird (Che

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2017

Birds of Vietnam free apps now available on Apps & Play stores

Vietnam Wildlife Tours & Research started the project since 2012 to develop Vietnam Bird Guide, a free apps now available for both iOS and Android devices. The application is a product of many year's effort in collection of photographs and sounds as well

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2016

Increase visa validity to one year for U.S. citizens

Effective on August 26, 2016, US citizens may apply for a 1 year multiple entries visa for Vietnam. It does not matter how long you plan to stay in Vietnam. "All Visa applications of US citizens will be issued for 1 year multiple entries Visa." Law on Ent

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Bird Quiz - Way to get familiar with Vietnamese birds

Our effort to help you familiar with Vietnamese & Southeast Asia birds before get visiting these beautiful countries. With this game, we're also hope to encourage people get loving birds and conserve them. Thousands pictures and songs to test and improve

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2015

Golden-winged Laughingthrush and New birding spots in Kon Tum, Central Highland Vietnam

There are two different spots, you have to stay overnight at a new established town Tu Mo Rong to visit both. From there you can drive to a new road construction leads to Mang Ri commune. Note that the area is very new so security is not guaranteed, howev

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Birds in Myanmar

This was not a full-time birding trip, my teaching mission for the Wetland Ecology Training Course in Mekong Basin, however I was luckily to stay at the Yezin Agricultural University Guesthouse where surrounded by wood-trees and good habitat for 2 endemic

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2014

New Book: Birding guide to Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia

In oder to bring birding information of Indochinese countries to Birdfair UK 2014, Vietnam Wildlife Tours & Research has prepared this booklet. It is including all best birding spots in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Each birding site, we put accommodation a

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Welcome to the birds 2014

Welcome to the Birds is a series of events across the East Asian-Australasian and Central Asian Flyways to raise awareness of the wonder of our migrating birds. BirdLife International and the Royal Society for Protection of Birds (RSPB; BirdLife in the UK

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2012

Spoon-billed Sandpiper in Mekong delta

I had wanted to see the Spoon-billed Sandpiper for many years. I had been disappointed when I had visited Hong Kong’s Mai Po reserve a few years ago not to see them. As in many other of their former wintering and stop over migration places now, numbers of

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Media themes

What the media coverage says about Wildtour

Across the years, media coverage has repeatedly positioned Wildtour around five connected themes.

Pioneer

One of Vietnam’s earliest professional birding tour operators.

Conservation

Field action for migratory birds, wetlands and wild bird protection.

Photography

Using contests and exhibitions to build public awareness.

High-value tourism

Birdwatching as premium, low-impact tourism for Vietnam.

Ecological agriculture

Connecting Senta, ecological rice and conservation-based farming.

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