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Rapid urbanisation is eating away at Ho Chi Minh City's green space, with parks coming under increasing threat from shops, cafes, office blocks and parking lots.

The Sai Gon Safari Park has been added to the list of projects in which Ho Chi Minh City is soliciting investment, said Director of the city’s Department of Planning and Investment Le Thi Huynh Mai.

Master planning has been a weakness for HCM City for a long time and it could persist, a HCM City official has said.

Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong has called for travel companies’ cooperation to attract 7 million foreign tourists to the city in 2017.

The FLC real estate group opened a safari park in Quy Nhon city in the central province of Binh Dinh on March 25.

Concerted efforts by all related sectors and stakeholders are vital to fully exploit Ho Chi Minh City’s tourism potential, city leaders said.

The building of the long-delayed amusement park and zoo in Vietnam has sped up since HCM City's government has allowed Vinpearl JSC to work with a foreign partner, which is drawing up detailed plans.

HCM City authorities have paved the way for the long-delayed 500-million-USD Saigon Safari Park by paying compensation for households affected by the project.

A 490-hectare safari park will be built in Lac Duong district of Da Lat city by the Bidoup-Nui Ba National Park and Dalat Tourism.

No endangered animal has died at Vinpearl Safari Phu Quoc Zoo Park, the southern Kien Giang province's Department of Agriculture and Rural Development said in its latest report.

The Vinpearl Safari Park on Phu Quoc Island has just received 200 endangered animals of different species from various bio-geographic regions in the world, the Sai Gon Giai Phong reported.