Hlawga National Park
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IUCN category II (national park)
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| Location | Mingaladon, Yangon Region, Myanmar |
| Nearest city | Yangon |
| Coordinates | 17°00′17″N 96°06′44″E / 17.00472°N 96.11222°ECoordinates: 17°00′17″N 96°06′44″E / 17.00472°N 96.11222°E |
| Area | 1540 acres (623 hectares) |
| Established | September 30, 1982 |
| Governing body | Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry |
Hlawga National Park (Burmese: လှော်ကားအမျိုးသားဥယျာဉ်) is a national park located in Mingaladon, Yangon Division, Myanmar, 22 miles (35 km) north of Yangon. The 1540-acre (623-hectare) park includes an 818-acre (313 hectare) wildlife park, a 62-acre (25-hectare) mini-zoo and a 660-acre (267-hectare) buffer zone.
First established as an environmental education center in 1982, the national park is a popular day-trip destination with Yangonites and ecotourists.
The park embraces the catchment area of the Zokanabe Lake, an extension dam built in 1921–24 to reinforce the greater Hlawga Lake which has supplied water to Yangon since 1904. The park was established in 1982 with joint-funding by the UNDP and the Burmese government in order to protect the forests and vegetative cover in the catchment of Hlawga Lake, and to establish a representative collection of Burmese indigenous wildlife species of mammals, reptiles and birds, in their natural habitats.
The 818-acre (3.31 km2) wildlife park is home to various types of deer (eld's deer, hog deer, barking deer, sambar deer), as well as rhesus monkey, pythons, and pangolin. Their natural habitats consists of semi-evergreen forests, mixed deciduous forests, and swamp forests. According to a 1992 survey, the park was home to at least 21 species of mammals, 145 species of birds and 8 species of reptiles.
Barking deer, hog deer and wild boar are the most common mammal species. Slow lores, pangolin and a few species of jungle cats used to roam the park at night feeding on figs, which is abundantly found in the park. The semi-evergreen type of vegetation creates ideal habitats for a variety of reptiles from monitor lizards to cobra, and krait ( Bungarus fasciatus) to pythons (Python reticulatus).
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