Botanic tropical garden, called Arec - Vuon Cau in Vietnamese - at la ferme du Colvert
Vietnamese Ecotourism Association - AVE
http://www.ecotourisme-vietnam.com
 Fidele to our commitment for responsible tourism – Vietnam Aventure is starting, from now on, the Ecotourism Development in Vietnam, which we have always been doing, without noticing, during our rough course serving the Nature & Environment Protection cause. We also thank the AFE (French Association of Ecotourism), and its president-founder Pascal Languillon, consultant in ecotourism at Auckland, who helped us deeply in our decision of setting up our Vietnamese Ecotourism Association (AVE).
The specialists
- Since 2006: cooperation on the land, supporting Dr Didier Orange researching in Hydrology and Geochemistry of the French Instituts of Research for Development (IRD), and, this, for fighting against the eroding of the hills, caused by streams.
- Since 2006 : creation of the humanitarian project DURAD, which obtained good results, with help
 from the French organism CIRAD, directed by the agronome Paulo Salgado, in the oat plantation at la ferme du Colvert and Cu Yen village. We hope to receive some help to keep developing this successful local project.
- We also thank the contact of theFrench Development in Vietnam Agency, directed by Professor Edouard DANJOY
- Mr Alexandre Minski, Attaché of coopération universitaire, Cultural Service of the Embassy of France in Hanoi
- Cooperation and Cultural Action Service of the Embassy of France in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
- Report from Tiphaine Breillot - IUP Environment Leisures and Sport Tourism of Grenoble, after one training stay at la ferme du Colvert and an ecotour with Vietnam Aventure.
- Report from Roxane Nouaille and Aurelie Obscur – Tourism College of Paris, after an training stay at la ferme du Colvert and an ecotour with Vietnam Aventure.
- Suggestions from various journalists and others, mostly French or English-speaking.
 As a first step, we focus on two main topics :
- To keep developing our first specialty : organizing tours of green tourism (by foot, by bike, in sampan…). Tours which involve completely and directly our customers, and where real and direct contacts with local populations are favoured. That is why the visited places are located in the very backcountry, hidden in secret, allowing a high preservation of the scenery. This is our way to encourage the ethnic communities to preserve their way of living.
- To help protecting our region, Luong Son, sheltering numerous traditional Muong villages. Facing in the same time, to an imposing property campain, being more and more interested in the surroundings of la ferme du Colvert, in the South-West of Hanoi. Or to massive constructions of touristy infrastructures.
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