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Ecotourism Sites in Myanmar
Hlawga Wildlife Park
Location
Located between 17'01' N and 96'05' E in Taukkyan
Model Village, Mingaladon Township of Yangon
Division.
Area
540 acres, comprising a wildlife park (818
acres), a mini-zoo (62 acres) and a buffer zone (660
acres).
Year of Establishment
Established on 30 September 1982.
Access
- Approximately 22 miles north of Yangon, just
west of Yangon-Pyay Road.
- Golden Thamin (Cervus eldi), endemic to
Myanmar.
Objectives
- To establish an enviromental education
centre near Yangon.
- To protect the forests and vegetative cover
in the catchment of Hlawga Lake.
- To establish a representative collection of
Myanmar indigenous wildlife species of mammals,
reptiles and birds, which will be kept under as
near as possible natural conditions in such as a
way that they can be readily viewed by visitors.
Forest/vegetative Types
- Semi-evergreen forests
- Mixed deciduous forests
- Swamp forests
Wildlife
- Thamin, hog deer, barking deer, sambar deer,
rhesus monkey, pythons, pangolin, mythun, all
have in the fenced wildlife park.In the
mini-zoo, small mammals, birds, tigers,
leopards, bears and estuarine crocodiles are
being displayed more freely in large in spacious
cages, aviaries and moated enclosures, built
with modern zoo comcept.
Conservation, Development and Research
Programmes
- Effective protection and management of
degraded forests.
- Establishment and management of buffer zone
plantations.
- Construction of high quality rest house
''chalets'' which are in hamony with the natural
surroundings.
- Establishment of a new Information Centre.
- Construction of a 5-storied viewing tower.
- Maintenance of roads, nature tails and of
all buildings and their utilities.
- Research programmes on vegatative study and
ornithological studies on both resident and
mgratory birds.
- Enviroment education activities to create
public awarness of enviroment conservation.
- Joint-ventrue development works between
Forest Department and loval private sectors for
all-round development of Hlawga park.
- Development of one 18-hole golf course of
international standard in the buffer zone of the
park.
Opportunities and Study
- Study nature conservation activities in
Myanmar
- Observing ecological study on Thamin, hog
deer, barking deer, sambar deer, etc., in their
natural state.
- Enjoyment of out-door recreation such as
picnic sites, traditional huts, boats and
elephant rides.
- Conducting individual or group bird-watching
activities with assistance from experienced
bird-watchers of the park.
- Study a previously human-disturbed and
degraded forest, gradually restoring itself into
a well grown natural forest, over a time-span of
20 years.
- Recreation in high quality "chalets" built
by the Forest Department.
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