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Chiang Mai mountain reserve-listed

Chiang Mai mountain reserve-listed

Doi Chiang Dao gets Unesco approval

Chiang Dao Cave is located at the foot of Doi Chiang Dao Mountain. The cave, full of stunning stalactites and stalagmites, is a tourist magnet in Chiang Mai. (Photo: Apichit Jinakul)

Doi Chiang Dao, Thailand’s third-highest peak and part of a karst geological mountain range in Chiang Mai, has been listed as a new biosphere reserve.

Karst is topography formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone.

The announcement was made at an online meeting by Natural Resources and Environment Minister Varawut Silpa-archa.

It is Thailand’s fifth such natural reserve.

Mr Varawut said the International Coordinating Council of Unesco’s Man and the Biosphere Programme agreed to list…

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