Thailand
“The Chao Phraya is the major river in Thailand, with its low alluvial plain forming the centre of the country. The Chao Phraya begins at the confluence of the Ping and Nan rivers at Nakhon Sawan in Nakhon Sawan Province. After this it flows south for 372 kilometres from the central plains to Bangkok and the Gulf of Thailand.”
“Cities along the Chao Phraya include, from north to south, Nakhon Sawan, Uthai Thani, Chai Nat , Sing Buri, Ang Thong, Ayutthaya, Pathum Thani, Nonthaburi, Bangkok, and Samut Prakan. These cities are among the most historically significant and densely populated settlements of Thailand due to their access to the waterway.”
“The lowland areas of the Chao Phraya watershed in central Thailand have been designated as the freshwater swamp forests, a tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests ecoregion, an area about 400 km north to south and 180 km wide. The original swamp forests have almost entirely been removed as the plain has been converted to rice paddies, other agriculture, and urban areas like Bangkok.”
Thailand’s largest watershed
Giant Black Squirrel
(Ratufa bicolor)
Near Threatened
Indochinese Tiger
(Panthera tigris corbetti)
Endangered
Asian Water Monitor
(Varanus salvator)
Least Concern
Dusky Leaf Monkey
(Trachypithecus obscurus)
Near Threatened
Lyles Flying Fox
(Pteropus lylei)
Vulnerable
White-eyed River Martin
(Pseudochelidon sirintarae)
Critically Endangered
280
species of fish
Much of the wildlife that once inhabited these plains of Chao Phraya Delta has disappeared, including a large number of fish in the river systems, birds such as vultures, the Oriental darter (Anhinga melanogaster), white-eyed river martin (Pseudochelidon sirintarae), the sarus crane (Grus antigone) and animals such as the tigers, Asian elephants, Javan rhinoceroses, and the much-hunted Schomburgk’s deer.
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