Mulayit Wildlife Sanctuary

{{Infobox Protected area

| name = Mulayit Wildlife Sanctuary

| iucn_category = IV

| map = Myanmar

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| map_caption = Location in Myanmar

| location =Kayin State, Myanmar

| established = 1936

| coordinates = {{coord|16|06|N|98|29|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| area = {{convert|138.56|km2|abbr=on}}{{cite web |author=World Database on Protected Areas |year=2019 |title=Mulayit Wildlife Sanctuary |website=Protected Planet |url=https://www.protectedplanet.net/mulayit-wildlife-sanctuary-wildlife-sanctuary}}

| governing_body = Forest Department

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Mulayit Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected area in Myanmar's Kayin State, covering {{convert|138.56|km2|abbr=on}}. It ranges in elevation from {{convert|80|to|2010|m|abbr=on}} and encompasses grassland, evergreen forest and mixed deciduous forest in Kyain Seikgyi Township. It was gazetted in 1936.{{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=Mulayit |pages=70–71 |url=https://www.istituto-oikos.org/files/download/2018/MyanmarProtectedAreas_Context_CurrentStatusandChallenges.pdf}}

It is located on the western slopes of the Dawna Range and was established with the support of Buddhist monks.{{cite journal |author=Yin, U. T. |year=1955 |title=Wild Life Preservation in Burma |journal=Oryx |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=89–98 |doi=10.1017/S0030605300038242 |s2cid=26515859 |url=http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/pdf_files/124/1246115503.pdf}}

The white-fronted scops owl, the silver-eared laughingthrush (Trochalopteron melanostigma), the grey-sided thrush (Turdus feae) and the Tenasserim white-bellied rat (Niviventer tenaster) are found in the Mulayit Taung area.{{cn|date=December 2019}}