All National Park
in Thailand
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Thailand
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National
Park is an area that contains natural resource of ecological
importance or unique beauty such as beautiful scenery, waterfall,
caves, and mountains, or flora and fauna of special importance.
National Parks of Thailand offer the visitors tremendous
variety of attractions, in addition, they consists of ecologically,
economically and scientifically valuable plants and animals.
Most of Thailand National Parks are blessed with natural beauty
and historical importance. The geology, landscape and natural
beauty of the parks was recognized by visitor, both locally
and internationally. Their appearances are self-interpretive.
National Parks, in the sense of protected areas, play significant
roles in maintaining ecological stability and preserving biological
diversity. These protected areas also are excellent places
for recreation and education. Up to now, the National Park,
Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department has established
103 national parks .
According to the necessity and importance of conservation
of biological and ecological diversity of nature and resource,
pushed the Royal Forest Department to establish many national
parks covering every part of country, from the highest peak
of mountain in the Doi Inthanon National Park to the lowest
area of river and sea such as Krabi National Park continuously
covering sea coast and mid-sea of the Surin Islands National
Park.
Regarding the diversity of species and genetics, actually
the Thai academic knowledge of plant and animal species is
very limited and consequently sometime is the cause of pitfall
of nature and resource management. However, the conservation
of natural habitats of these species and genetics in the national
park boundaries throughout the country could make a confidence
to our children that some varieties of wild species would
be conserved at some degree. In addition, some academic research
promotion is parallelly proceeded and hoped that one day Thailand
would be ready and able to efficiently use this nature and
biological resources diversity.
Another valued nature and resource of Thai national parks
is the natural-born things which are very unique in the world
or so called the natural and resource uniqueness of geological
form, for example the 75 million years of shell cemetery of
the Nhopharat-Thara-Phi Phi Islands National Park, the James
Bond Island of the Phang Nga National Park, the exotic stalactite
cave of the Jalermratanakosin National Park, Hin Ngam beach
of Taru Tao National Park, the button rock terrace and cracked
rock terrace of Phu Hin Rongra National Park, the cliff rock
of Rom Sak Cliff and the right place of the 3-leaf pine tree
on the cliff of Phu Kradeung National Park.
These prominent of nature and resources, if be destroyed,
we could not recreate them by a big money at all and also
our proudest possession of these nature and resources would
be gone forever. The other side of these valued nature and
resources which we don't have too much in the Thai national
parks are the natural and resource culture of original communities.
For example Chaw Le of Surin Islands National Park, Taru Tao
National Park and Lanta Islands National Park, Sa Kai Wild
Negrito of Taleban National Park , or the mountain tribe community
which the traditional of living style and culture of these
communities would gradually dilute, so the left communities
are the uncomparable valued thing that we must conserve.
And the last thing is the historical nature and resources
which exists here since the age of prior historical record,
such as color paint picture at Pha Tam National Park or evidence
and dinosaur fossil at Phu Wiang National Park or even some
historical evidence which is very important for our nation
appearing on many national parks, for example Khuha Khareuhash
Throne at Khaow Sam Roi Yod National Park, Phra Nang Raue
Lom at Priow Waterfall National Park and the political jail
at Taru Tao National Park. Therefore, these nature and resources
conserving for our children in Thai national parks are very
difficult for us to evaluate them as a value of money.
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