Save Son Doong

Son Doong is the world's largest cave located in a National Park of Vietnam and a World Heritage of UNESCO. This underground kingdom is so big it has its own weather, landscape, and ecosystem with jungles, waterfalls, rivers, hills, and many rare flora and fauna species. This 5-million-year-old hidden wonder has just been recently discovered. But like any other wonder found by humankind, the cave is facing the threat of being exploited.

What is the problem?

A cable car project is being considered, which can bring in up to 1000 tourists an hour (equivalent to 1-1.5 million per annum). That is a huge increase in tourism traffic, given the current trekking permit quota to this cave is only 1000 a year. Like how mass tourism has destroyed numerous Natural & Cultural Heritage sites around the world, this cable car project poses a threat to the sensitive ecosystem and the fragile structure of the cave.  

Despite of not being to this cave, I can not bear to see it be destroyed. So I have donated for the campaign name "Save Son Doong" which is a group of Vietnamese environmental activists, who have been advocating for the conservation of Son Doong for the past three years. They've built a loyal fan base of more than 175,000 followers on Facebook and organized numerous offline events, from movie screening, photo exhibition, to workshops, conferences, debate forums, competitions, etc, including meeting President Obama. Beside, I also convince my friends to participate in this campaign with me and happily, nearly two thirds of my classmates have donated to "Save Son Doong".

I also write this report to call for the support of you- environmental ambassadors. Son Doong is not only the natural site of Vietnam but it is a heritage of this world. So please conspire us to protect this gift of nature.