Amazing Natural Heritage - Wild Thailand

Natural Treasure Trove

Thailand supports a prodigious array of plants and animals. Deciduous trees she their leaves during the six-mounth dry season in the Northe. On high hills and table lands, forests of pine and maple are common. Evergreen rain forest in the South range from freshwater swamp forest to thick foliage clinging to kharst outcrops. Thailand's natural blessings include an amazing variety of fruit trees, bamboo, tropical hardwoods, and 27,000 species of flowering plants, including many varieties of orchid, the national symbol.

Animal life has adapted in various ways to the diversity of climate and terrain of Thailand. The wildlife of the North is mostly Indochinese in origin; in the South it resembles that of Malaysia and Indonesia. The Andaman coast is the habitat of four species of sea turtles. In Thailand's national parks and wildlife sanctuaries are 300 species of mammals : tigers, leopards, bears, civets, lapirs, elephants, deer and monkeys.

Phu Hin Rong Kla National Park Thung Salaeng Luang National Park Doi Inthanon National Park Mae Surin National Park Sri Nakharin National Park Kaeng Krachan National Park KhaoYai National Park

Sai Yok National Park Phu Kradueng National Park Songkhla Lake and Thale Noi Khao Luang National Park Sirindhorn Peat Swamp Forest Thale Ban National Park Khao Sok National Park