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Khao Yai National Park was then established on September 18, 1962, declared by royal proclamation in the Government Gazette ( Book 79, Section 89 ) as the first National Park in Thailand.
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Both the hog deer and Eld's deer are rare, whereas Indian sambar and Indian muntjac thrive in protected national parks such as Khao Yai.
* Two individuals were radio-collared during a study from 1997 to 1999 in the Khao Yai National Park.
In the mostly semi-evergreen Dong Phayayen – Khao Yai Forest Complex, they were recorded at low density at the turn of the century, with an estimated total of about 150 individuals.
Khao Yai National Park
Two national parks are in the province-the Khao Yai in the west and the Thab Lan in the south.
In those areas are also two national parks, Khao Yai and the Tab Larn National Park.
Most of that area is covered by the Khao Yai National Park.
Several other waterfalls within the province are well known as touristical targets-Nangrong and the nine-leveled Sarika waterfall are located within the Khao Yai NP, and also the Lan Rak ( or Tat Hin Kong ) waterfall.
It rises in the Khao Yai National Park area of the Sankamphaeng Range, near Nakhon Ratchasima in the Isan area of Thailand.
* July 19 – United Arab Airlines Flight 869, a de Havilland DH-106 Comet 4C, crashes on Khao Yai mountain in Thailand while on approach to Bangkok, killing all 26 people on board.
Tree rising above the canopy in Khao Yai forest.
Asiatic elephant at Khao Yai
Khao Yai National Park (, ) is a national park in Thailand.
Khao Yai National Park is situated in the western part of the Sankamphaeng Mountain Range, at the southwestern boundary of the Khorat Plateau.
Recent monitoring by FREELAND Foundation in collaboration with Department of National Park rangers has discovered tigers ( the Indochinese tiger subspecies ) in parts of Eastern Thailand ( including Khao Yai ) where they were previously thought to have been completely extirpated.
The area was formally recognized by the government and classified as Tambon Khao Yai within Pak Phli District.
It was named after the defunct Tambon Khao Yai.
In 1984 the park was made an ASEAN Heritage Park, and on July 14, 2005 the park together with other parks in the same range and in the Dong Phaya Yen mountains further north was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site under the name Dong Phaya Yen – Khao Yai Forest Complex.
Khao Yai forests
Khao Yai National Park has three main seasons, with an annual mean temperature of 23 degrees Celsius, though this varies greatly with the seasons.
The Takhong River drains from the central Khao Yai area and runs in a North-Easterly direction into the Mekong.
The Saraburi Province drainage system drains Westward from the far West of Khao Yai.
The waterfall is located about 10 kilometers from the south gate along the central road through Khao Yai.
* thaibirding. com on Khao Yai National Park
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The swamp would have been covered in Phragmites marsh grasses and today there is a small area of this remaining in Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park, a relic of the original landscape.
Several National Parks are located in the forests of the mountain area of the province-the Erawan, Sai Yok, Khao Laem, Khaoen Sri Nakarin and Chaloem Rattanakosin National Parks are located in the province.
The Khao Luang Mountain Range, with its four main peaks: Khao Phu Kha, Khao Phra Mae Ya, Khao Chedi, and Pha Narai, lies within the Ramkhamhaeng National Park in the south of the province.
The Khao Pu-Khao Ya National Park is located in these mountains at the border to Trang.
The Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park was established in 1966 to protect Thailand's largest freshwater marshes.
Khao Phra Wihan National Park covers an area of 130 km² of the Dângrêk mountains in the southeast of the province.
* Khao Sok National Park official webpage
* previous link to Khao Sok National Park official webpage
The highest elevation of the Phetchabun mountains is 1820 m Phu Man Khao at the Phu Hin Rong Kla National Park in the northern zone of the mountain range.
Khao and Park
The slogan of the province is Venerable Luangpu Suk, Renowned Chao Phraya Dam, Famous Bird Park and Tasty Khao Taengkwa Pomelo.
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The breeding pair was brought from the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand in an ongoing education and research exchange program.
The Lao kingdom of Lan Xang Hom Khao ( lâansâang-ລ ້ ານ " million " + ຊ ້ າງ " elephant "+ " Under the White Parasol ";, Sisattanakhanahut ;, ; ) was established in 1354 by Fa Ngum.
Fa Ngoum or Fa Ngum was born in Muang Sawa, a Lao principality located on the site of present-day Luang Prabang, and founded the Lan Xang Hom Khao ( better known as Lan Xang ) kingdom in Laos in 1353.
The Bhumibol Dam ( named after King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the old name was Yanhee Dam ) is located in Khao Kaew Tambon ( sub-district ), Amphoe Sam Ngao ( district ) of Tak and was built from 1958-1964.
Patong was one of the worst affected areas of Phuket, although the destruction was not as bad as nearby Khao Lak.
On the Khwae Yai River, the Si Nakharin Dam was finished in 1980 and the Tha Thung Na Dam in 1981, while the Khao Laem Dam ( renamed Vajiralongkorn Dam ) on the Khwae Noi river south of Thung Yai was completed in 1984.
At the time of the tsunami, Khao Lak was Thailand's fastest growing tourist destination.
Khao Lak was one of the coastal areas of Thailand hardest hit by the tsunami resulting from the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.
Almost four years old at the time, a young girl was swept away at Khao Lak and remained the subject of a media-covered intensive search despite being formally identified in August 2005 as a victim.
The smaller but increasingly popular resort area of Khao Lak some 80 km north of Phuket was hit far worse with 3, 950 confirmed deaths, however, the death toll in Khao Lak may have exceeded 4, 500.
At the official tsunami commemorations on the first anniversary of the tsunami held at at Khao Lak, Thailand on 26 December 2005, she was given the honour of closing the ceremony with a speech to thousands of spectators which read in part:
The area of the Khao Sam Roi Yot was probably the site where King Mongkut convened with European guests on August 18, 1868 to observe a total solar eclipse.
The specimen later used as the type specimen was collected on February 3, 1929 at Khao Pho Ta Luang Kaeo near Ranong.
One of these film was his Khao Chue Karn ( Dr. Karn ), based on a well-known story by Suwannee Sukhontha.
The area, especially around the hill Khao Chong Chang was the stronghold of communist rebels in the 1980s.
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