The designation of the Xesap Protected Forest as a national park will serve to better manage the area and the complex ecology within, securing its biodiversity from external threats.

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Funded by Western endowments and nonprofits, the Xesap NP is a biodiversity hotspot, home to some of Asia’s most endangered species which are found nowhere else on the continent.