Salawin Wildlife Sanctuary
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The Salawin Wildlife Sanctuary is located in Thailand
, and includes the Salween River
. Founded in 1978, it is an IUCN Category IV wildlife sanctuary, measuring 87500 square kilometres (33,783.9 sq mi) in size.
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
, and includes the Salween River
Salween River
The Salween is a river, about long, that flows from the Tibetan Plateau into the Andaman Sea in Southeast Asia. It drains a narrow and mountainous watershed of that extends into the countries China, Burma and Thailand. Steep canyon walls line the swift, powerful and undammed Salween, one of the...
. Founded in 1978, it is an IUCN Category IV wildlife sanctuary, measuring 87500 square kilometres (33,783.9 sq mi) in size.