- Chatthin
Wildlife Sanctuary
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Location |
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- Located
between 23'36' N and 92'32' E in Kanbula Township of Sagaing Division.
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Area
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Year
of Establishment |
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Access |
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- (a) Yangon
via Manadalay to Chatthin, 502 miles by rail.
- (b) Yangon
via Mamdalay to Shwebo, 577 miles by car, Shwebo to Chatthin, 80 miles
by car.
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Objectives
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- (a) To
conserve and protect the Dry Forest Ecosystem and related biological
species.
- (b) To
preserve one of the World's endangered animals, Thamin spp. (Cervus
eldi Thamin) which can be found only in Myanmar and to maintain
an optimum number for the existence of this species.
- (c) To
estiblish an out-door laboratory to study the ecology of Thamin and
the biodiversity.
- (d) To
estiblish a center for public recreation and natural environmental education.
- (e) To
upgrade the sancturay to promote ecotourism.
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Forest
/ Vegetative Types |
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- (a) Low
Indaing Forests.
- (b) High
Indaing Forests.
- (c) Flooded
Indaing Forests.
- (d) Upper
Mixed Deciduous Forests.
- (e) Grass
Savanna Matric Forests.
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Wildlife |
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- Macaca
species, barking deer, wild boar, wild dog, leopard, cat species, bats
and Guano species, amphibian species and 158 species of birds and approvimately
1530 numbers of Thamin reside in the park.
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Medicinal
Plants and Herbs |
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- Altogether
69 species of medicinal plants and herbs have recorded in the latest
inventory survey.
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Development and Research Programmes |
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- (a) Conservation
of wildlife and natural forests.
- (b) Establishment
of natural regeneration and plantation in the buffer-zero and taungya
encroachment areas.
- (c) Construction
of rest houses in Kye-In to facilitate ecotourism schemes.
- (d) Education
works for conserving natural ecology with the assistance and aid of
the Smithsonion Institution from the United Ststes of America.
- (e) With
the assistance and aid of Smithsonian Institution,
- Commencing
from 1995, research works on data collection by Radio-telemetry
and other advance techniques have been carried out for the World
endangered species; Thamin and its ecology.
- Research
works on Dry Forest habitat species and their phenological charecteristics
are begin conducted.
- Commencing
from 1996, Bird banding and survey on the occurence and movement
of resident forest birds in the dry forest have been carried out.
- Commencing
from July, 1998, research on Herpeto-fauna has been carried out.
- Initiating
insect servey sicne October, 1998.
- Commencing
from April, 1998, research on Taw-Hkwe and other carnivorous. Wild
dogs, the main predators to Thamin, are being carried out.
- (f) Establishment
of a small boidiversity museum with survey works, research works and
collection of data and scientific speciments.
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Opportunities
for Study and Recreation |
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- (a) Study
of the Dry Forest ecosystem.
- (b) Enjoyment
of the natural beauty of the famous Kye-In wetlans.
- (c) Study
on the advance research works on wildlife.
- (d) Study
on the medicinal plants, climber and biodiversity museum in chatthin
Wildlife sanctuary.
- (e) Rest
house in San Myaung and another temporary building, each of which can
accomodate 4 guests.
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