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Settled in the shelter of the rainforest they protected the region from the Thai army, loggers, miners, and hunters for seven years. [5] Khao Sok became a national park in 1980. The government and the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) were interested in this region because Khao Sok holds the largest watershed in southern Thailand.
Thailand's forest parks fall under IUCN Category V, Protected Landscape. There are a total of some 117 Forest Parks in Thailand, 91 are published in the Government Gazette, covering a combined land surface of 1,751 square kilometres (676 sq mi), which is about a 0.34% of the total area of the country.
The Tenasserim–South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests [2] is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion on Mainland Southeast Asia. The ecoregion extends north–south along the Kra Isthmus . It includes lowland forests along the coasts, and montane forests on the Tenasserim Hills and Bilauktaung range, which form the mountainous spine ...
Media related to Protected areas of Thailand at Wikimedia Commons; List of Forest Parks in Thailand; Map of National Parks & Wildlife Sanctuaries in Thailand; National Parks & Wildlife Sanctuaries in Thailand; Wildlife sanctuaries of Thailand; Paleontological parks and museums and prominent fossil sites in Thailand
Detailed map of Thailand. Thailand is in the middle of mainland Southeast Asia. It has a total size of 513,120 km 2 (198,120 sq mi) which is the 50th largest in the world. The land border is 4,863 km (3,022 mi) long with Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Malaysia. The nation's axial position influenced many aspects of Thailand's society and culture. [1]
DNP: more information and a map of the specific national park. Gazette date: the date of the last publication in the Government Gazette. Gazette source: the webpage with the pdf document of the publication in the Government Gazette. PARO: management of Thailand's national parks since 2002 in 16 regions with 5 branches.
Nam Nao National Park, in the Luang Prabang of northern, supporting Thailand different forest types, deciduous and evergreen. (1,000 km 2) Nam Et-Phou Louey National Park is in the northeast of the ecoregion, and also protects portions of the Northern Indochina subtropical forests and Northern Thailand–Laos moist deciduous forests ecoregions.
The Cardamom Mountains rain forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion in Southeast Asia, as identified by the WWF.The ecoregion covers the Cardamom Mountains and Elephant Mountains and the adjacent coastal lowlands in eastern Thailand and southwestern Cambodia, as well as the Vietnamese island of Dao Phu Quoc.