Khao Sok National Park has the world’s oldest tropical evergreen forest. Photo by Robert Mather
LAGUNA, Feb. 18 -- A protected area in Thailand, touted as the world’s oldest tropical evergreen forest, Khao Sok National Park, was declared an ASEAN Heritage Park (AHP), the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) announced.
The environment ministers of the ASEAN approved the nomination of Khao Sok National Park as the 50th ASEAN Heritage Park as endorsed and recommended virtually by the 31st Meeting of the ASEAN Senior Officials on Environment (ASOEN) and the 22nd Meeting of the Governing Board of the ACB, with Viet Nam as host, on 24-25 November 2020.