Khao Yai National Park is Thailand's first national park, in a mountainous area northeast of Bangkok, and one of the best known in Southeast Asia. It covers a mix of evergreen and deciduous forest, grassland and waterfalls, and it is home to Asian elephants, gibbons, hornbills, macaques, deer and a small number of tigers and other big cats. The park is part of the Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex, which UNESCO listed as a World Heritage Site because of its biodiversity, and it attracts large numbers of visitors from the capital. Large colonies of bats emerge from caves at dusk. The park is threatened by illegal logging and by the pressures of tourism and nearby development.
Before and after
- 9 August 1962Death of Hermann Hesse
- 27 August 1962Launch of Mariner 2
- September 1962Ole Miss riot of 1962
- 2 September 1962Birth of Keir Starmer
- 8 September 1962Establishment of Khao Yai National Park
- from 26 September 1962 to 1 December 1970North Yemen civil war
- 27 September 1962Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring
- from 11 October 1962 to 8 December 1965Second Vatican Council
- from 14 October 1962 to 28 October 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
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