{"id":2263,"date":"2021-07-30T00:52:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T00:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=28165"},"modified":"2021-07-30T00:52:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T00:52:25","slug":"thailands-kaeng-krachan-forest-added-to-world-heritage-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/global-travel-news\/thailands-kaeng-krachan-forest-added-to-world-heritage-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand\u2019s Kaeng Krachan Forest Added to World Heritage List"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div> <a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/destinations\/asia\/thailand\/thailands-kaeng-krachan-forest-added-to-world-heritage-list\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Thailand&#039;s Kaeng Krachan Forest Added to World Heritage List-TRAVELINDEX\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/thailands-kaeng-krachan-forest-added-to-world-heritage-list.jpg\" alt=\"Thailand&#8217;s Kaeng Krachan Forest Added to World Heritage List\" width=\"500\" height=\"269\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>Bangkok, Thailand, July 30, 2021 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is pleased to report that Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex has been added to UNESCO\u2019s World Heritage List making it Thailand\u2019s sixth World Heritage Site.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to add Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex was made at the World Heritage Committee\u2019s 44<sup>th<\/sup> \u00a0session, held online and chaired from Fuzhou, China. The session will continue through to 31 July, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<a style=\"color: #096b27; font-weight: 600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.visitthailand.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> For a comprehensive travel guide on Thailand, Visit Thailand \u2013 Be Happy, at VisitThailand.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Located inside Thailand\u2019s largest national park of the same name, Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex covers 464,000 hectares and spans across the three provinces of Prachuap Khiri Khan, Phetchaburi, and Ratchaburi.<\/p>\n<p>It is the third natural heritage site after Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuaries was listed in 1991 and Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>UNESCO describes Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex as rich in biodiversity with semi-evergreen\/dry evergreen, moist evergreen and some mixed deciduous forest, montane forest, and deciduous dipterocarp forest. The area has abundant birdlife, including several globally threatened species, and is home to the critically endangered Siamese Crocodile, the endangered Asiatic Wild Dog and several other vulnerable wildlife species. There are also eight resident cat species, including the endangered Tiger and Fishing Cat, the vulnerable Clouded Leopard and Marbled Cat, the Jungle Cat, and Leopard Cat.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s other three World Heritage List locations are cultural heritage sites; these being Ban Chiang Archaeological Site, Historic City of Ayutthaya, and the Historic Town of Sukhothai and Associated Historic Towns.<\/p>\n<p>First published at<a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/destinations\/asia\/thailand\/thailands-kaeng-krachan-forest-added-to-world-heritage-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> TravelCommunication.net &#8211; Global Travel News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok, Thailand, July 30, 2021 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is pleased to report that Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex has been added to UNESCO\u2019s World Heritage List making it Thailand\u2019s sixth World Heritage Site. The decision to add Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex was made at the World Heritage Committee\u2019s 44th \u00a0session, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[9,106,116,110,1363,1305,10,117,483,121,118,831,119,111,195,108,1396,120],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-travel-news","tag-bangkok","tag-featured","tag-global-travel-news","tag-news","tag-tat_org","tag-tatnews","tag-thailand","tag-tourism-updates","tag-travel-and-tourism-foundation","tag-travel-news-hub","tag-travelindex","tag-unesco","tag-unwto-news","tag-updates","tag-visitthailand-net","tag-world","tag-world-heritage-sites","tag-wttc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}