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BIRDING IN MYANMAR

A NEW and exciting adventure in exotic places!

Wildlife found in Myanmar combines species from North, South and Southeast Asia.

There are approximately 1035 bird species, 12% of the total number o the world bird species.

In the jungles tigers and leopards are quite common. Birds counts species from the exotic parrot to the common crow, from pheasants to peafowls to the widespread paddybird.

The country’s highlands are home to elephants, rhinoceros, wild buffalo, wild boars as well as various deer species.

Myanmar also houses varying monkey species and among reptiles: crocodiles, pythons, cobras and geckos.

There are 27 di different species of turtles, with 7 of them being endemic to Myanmar.

Here you can find nine National Parks throughout the country with Alaungdaw Kathapap National Park in Sagaing Region being the largest at 160,500 hectares.

This park is home to a large population of wild elephants as well as other rare species like the Clouded Leopard, jungle cats, the Himalayan Brown Bear and the Sun Bear among others.

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Hunting is the biggest threat to Myanmar’s natural habitats. Commercial hunting provides animals for the local market and for international customers like China. Myanmar’s tigers and turtles are targeted most often. Conservation groups are working around the country to protect these animals and to raise public awareness to the problems commercial hunting poses. They are also safeguarding turtle nesting beaches as well as establishing captive breeding colonies in an attempt to raise the turtle population. Many groups are working to protect the freshwater population of Irrawaddy dolphins found in the Irrawaddy River.

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