ASEAN endorses oldest Thai forest » Borneo Bulletin Online
February 26, 2021 Danial Norjidi The ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) announced that a protected area in Thailand touted as the world’s oldest tropical evergreen forest, Khao Sok National Park, has been declared an ASEAN Heritage Park. The ASEAN environment ministers the nomination of Khao Sok National Park as the 50 th ASEAN Heritage Park as endorsed and recommended virtually by the 31 st Meeting of the ASEAN Senior Officials on Environment (ASOEN) and the 22 nd Meeting of the Governing Board of the ACB, with Vietnam as host, on November 24-25, 2020, an ACB press release stated. “We a...