[14 — 17] Actually, Nico Dauphiné and Robert J. Cooper take its already - tenuous claims one step further, citing Hawkins» work (actually a 2004 conference paper that summarizes his dissertation [18]-RRB- as evidence that «the continuous predation pressure exerted by exotic predators in exponentially high densities can and has resulted in numerous local extinctions of
continental land birds.»
The Thungyai - Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuaries, which run along the Myanmar border, contain examples of nearly all forest types found in
continental Southeast Asia and 77 percent of the large mammals, 50 percent of the large
birds, and 33 percent of the
land vertebrates in the region, according to UNESCO.