Rakhine Yoma Elephant Range

Rakhine Yoma Elephant Range is a place in Myanmar that is a home for Asian elephants (Elephas maximus). People are not allowed to build things or hurt animals. It is in Rakhine Yoma mountains. It is about  in size. Most of the land in the range is forest with evergreen trees and some trees with wide leaves. The range is from  above sea level.

Even though the range was made for elephants, many other plants and animals live there. The range has many bamboo plants  (Melocanna baccifera), and the endangered Arakan forest turtle (Heosemys depressa) lives in the bamboo.

In 2000, people put up a camera to look at the animals.  They saw large Indian civet (Viverra zibetha), clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), Asiatic golden cat (Catopuma temminckii), and leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis).

In 2001, people saw Bufo crocus was discovered near a stream  above sea level. In 2001, people saw bent-toed geckos Cyrtodactylus ayeyarwadyensis and Cyrtodactylus wakeorum. No scientists had written about seeing them before. Scientists wrote the first paper about them in 2003. People saw western hoolock gibbon (Hoolock hoolock) in 2008. People also saw gaur (Bos gaurus), sun bear (Helarctos malayanus), white-rumped vulture (Gyps bengalensis), pale-capped pigeon (Columba punicea), white-winged duck (Asarcornis scutulata) and beautiful nuthatch (Sitta formosa).

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Category:Geography of Myanmar