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| name  = Lenya National Park
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| location   = [[Bokpyin Township]], [[Tanintharyi Region]], {{flag|Myanmar}}
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| area  = {{convert|1220|mi2|abbr=on}} 
| governing_body  = Myanmar Forest Department
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'''Lenya National Park''' is a proposed [[national park]] in [[Myanmar]]. It has been proposed since 2002 to be established in the [[Tenasserim Hills]] over an area of {{convert|680|mi2|abbr=on}} and extended by {{convert|540|mi2|abbr=on}} in 2004. The area comprises [[evergreen forest]] at elevations from {{convert|50|to|4078|ft|abbr=on}}, which is governed by Myanmar's Forest Department. By 2011, the national park was not yet [[gazette]]d and its boundaries still not demarcated.<ref name=MPA2011>{{cite book |editor1=Beffasti, L. |editor2=Gallanti, V. |title=Myanmar Protected Areas: Context, Current Status and Challenges |year=2011 |publisher=Istituto Oikos, Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Association |location=Milano, Yangon |chapter=Lenya |pages=54–55 |url=https://www.istituto-oikos.org/files/download/2018/MyanmarProtectedAreas_Context_CurrentStatusandChallenges.pdf}}</ref>

The endangered [[Gurney's pitta]] (''Hydrornis gurneyi'') was rediscovered in the area of the proposed park in 2003. Large portions of land are being converted to [[oil palm]] and timber plantations.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Eames, J. C. |author2=Hla, H. |author3=Leimgruber, P. |author4=Kelly, D. S. |author5=Aung, S. M. |author6=Moses, S. |author7=Tin, U. S. N. |year=2005 |title=Priority contribution. The rediscovery of Gurney's Pitta ''Pitta gurneyi'' in Myanmar and an estimate of its population size based on remaining forest cover |journal=Bird Conservation International |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=3–26 |doi=10.1017/S095927090500002X |url=https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/8461/Eames2005.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|doi-access=free }}</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of protected areas in Burma]]

==References==
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== External links ==
*{{cite web |author=BirdLife International |year=2019 |url=http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/lenya-iba-myanmar |title=Important Bird Areas factsheet: Lenya. This is an IBA in danger!}}

{{National parks of Myanmar}}

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[[Category:National parks of Myanmar]]
[[Category:Tenasserim Hills]]
[[Category:Tanintharyi Region]]
[[Category:Important Bird Areas of Myanmar]]


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