Botum Sakor National Park
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IUCN category II (national park)
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| Location | Koh Kong Province, Cambodia |
| Nearest city | Sihanoukville |
| Coordinates | 11°06′56″N 103°14′59″E / 11.11553035°N 103.24969205°ECoordinates: 11°06′56″N 103°14′59″E / 11.11553035°N 103.24969205°E |
| Area | 1,712.5 km2 (661.2 sq mi) |
| Established | 1993 |
| Governing body | Cambodian Ministry of Environment, Department of Nature Conservation and Protection |
Botum Sakor National Park (Khmer: ឧទ្យានជាតិបុទុមសាគរ - Outtyeancheat Botum Sakor) is the largest national park of Cambodia. Situated on the coast of the Gulf of Thailand, Botum Sakor (or Botumsakor) is a peninsula projecting southwest from the Cardamom Mountains. The national park comprises 171,250 hectares of designated park land and spans three districts of Koh Kong Province: Kiri Sakor, Botum Sakor and Koh Kong. The park is under the administration of the Cambodian Ministry of Environment.
The majority of Botum Sakor’s area comprise gently sloping lowland, covered by evergreen woods and grasslands, emerging in coastal flood plains with mangrove and swamp forests. The climate is characterized by a tropical monsoon and the area has two high tides per day, with a range of approximately 1.5 m. The human population of Botum Sakor National Park is unknown.
The national park of Botum Sakor has a very rich and varied wildlife that is unique in the world. Only very little on-location research has been done and published on the biodiversity of the area so far and for the remote interior of the park, no scientific investigation has ever been carried out, due to the area's extremely hard terrain. Nevertheless, the limited available knowledge and emerging understanding, are clearly showing that this area is of very high importance on a global level, with many threatened and endemic species living here. More than a few are even listed as critically endangered on the international IUCN Red List. Therefore, the establishment of the area as a national park in 1993, was an important step towards securing the biodiversity of planet Earth.
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