Traveling to Natural World Heritage Sites: Thung Yai Wildlife Sanctuary – Huai Kha Khaeng
Thung Yai Wildlife Sanctuary – Huai Kha Khaeng, also known as Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, is considered a major wildlife sanctuary in Thailand, located in Rabam Subdistrict. There are areas covering six districts and three provinces, including Uthai Thani Province in Ban Rai District, Lan Sak District and Huai Khot District. The general weather in the summer is very hot. The rainy season has heavy rain all day long, and there is a very short winter.
As for the forest, it contains diversity consisting of five out of seven types of forests found in the humid tropics, including dry evergreen forests, hill evergreen forests, mixed deciduous forests and grasslands, and dry deciduous dipterocarp forests, resulting in a very wide variety of plant and animal species. Some of them are rare animals, close to extinction, such as wild buffaloes, chamois, leopards, jackals, Thai peacocks, and many other species of birds. It is one of the hearts of the western forests of Thailand, and it is one of the most fertile forests in Southeast Asia.
Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary was registered as a Natural World Heritage Site by UNESCO on 9 December 1991. It is a forest that has a length from north to south of more than 100 kilometers; it began in 1972 with an area of 1,019,375 rai (1,631 square kilometers), but it has been expanded to 1,737,587 rai (2,780 sq km) at present. In the north, it is adjacent to Mae Wong National Park and Umphang Wildlife Sanctuary, including Thungyai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary. In the south, it is adjacent to Srinakarin Dam National Park, including Phu Toei National Park, which is suitable for hiking, nature study, and bird watching; there is an environmental conservation camp, and people can visit the house of Khun Seub Nakhasathien, a forest ranger who struggled to make the public care more about the nation’s forests.
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