![]() ![]() Threatened mammals of conservation significance include the tiger, Asian elephant, Malayan tapir, wild dog, sun bear, clouded leopard, common leopard, Asiatic golden cat, and gaur. There is a large extent of forest remaining in the ecoregion, but poaching is rife thus most of the wildlife have either been extirpated or pushed to the brink of local extinction. Image credit: Kalyan Varma, Creative Commons Large patches of low statured forests and mixed delta scrub are characterized by tree species such as Elaeocarpus hygrophilus, Calophyllum amoenum, Litsea nitida, Eugenia spp., and Diospyros burmanica.Īsian elephant. The forests along the brackish water reaches include several mangrove species. The Tenasserim sections at the south of this ecoregion includes some Heritiera-dominated brackish and fresh-water habitats along the Tenasserim River. There is an undergrowth of Calamus palms and the creeping bamboo, Temostachyon helferi. speciosa, Pentace burmanica, and Swintonia floribunda. Other associated trees include Lagerstroemia calyculata, L. pilosa, Anisoptera glabra, Hopea odorata, and Parashorea stellata. The species in this ecoregion include Dipterocarpus alatus, D. The copious monsoonal rainfall encourages a lush tropical forest vegetation, dominated by species in the family Dipterocarpaceae that are characteristic of most Asian rainforests. Image credit: Frank Wouters, Creative Commons In September and October the rains taper off, but the temperatures remain relatively constant, in the low 30✬, although the high humidity makes it feels warmer.Ĭlouded leopard. Annual rainfall exceeds 4,000 mm, with most rainfall occurring from June to August. The ecoregion presents an array of climatic niches that supports habitat for the flora and fauna from the Indian, Indochina, and Sundaic regions, contributing to its high species diversity. A small part in the north extends into Bangladesh. The Myanmar Coastal Rainforests ecoregion represents the lowland evergreen and semi-evergreen rainforests along the western side of the Arakan Yoma and Tenasserim mountain ranges of Myanmar’s west coast. ![]() Image credit: Courtesy of Vanaavi, iNaturalist The flagship species of the Myanmar Coastal Rainforests ecoregion is the Asiatic golden cat. Although there have been a few subsequent records of rhino tracks, and one unverified report of a calf kept in captivity by local villages from far northern areas of Myanmar, this rhinoceros is now believed to be extinct in Myanmar and all of mainland Asia. This act extirpated one of the world’s rarest large mammals from this ecoregion. In 1984, the last Sumatran rhinoceros in the Arakan Yoma region was killed, and its horn sold to a traditional Chinese medicine shop in Yangon. ![]()
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