Lampi Island Marine National Park
The Lampi Island Marine National Park is a marine national park in Myanmar covering. It was established in 1996. It encompasses Lanbi Island and several smaller islands in the Mergui Archipelago, comprising coral reefs, seagrass beds, mangroves, sand dunes and tropical evergreen forest up to an elevation of. The national park is an Important Bird Area and one of the ASEAN Heritage Parks. Access is restricted to day-time visits.
Seagrass is present around the eastern part of the island, comprising Thalassianthus hemprichi, Cymodocea rotundata, Halodule uninervis, H. pinifolia and dugong grass.
The presence of dugong on Lampi island was confirmed for the first time in March 2008. Since then, trails left by dugong to dugong grass patches were observed repeatedly.
During a survey in 2013, carapaces of leatherback sea turtle, green sea turtle, hawksbill sea turtle and Oldham’s leaf turtle were found on Lampi Island. Pope’s tree pitviper, water monitor and Tokay gecko were observed. Reticulated python occurs as well.
A camera trapping survey between November 2015 and May 2017 revealed the presence of smooth-coated otter, Asian palm civet, small-toothed palm civet, long-tailed macaque, northern pig-tailed macaque, dusky langur, Bengal slow loris, lesser mouse deer, wild boar, Sunda pangolin, northern treeshrew, red giant flying squirrel, black giant squirrel, grey-bellied squirrel, Pallas's squirrel, Berdmore's ground squirrel, long-tailed giant rat and red spiny rat.
