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Ecology & Environment
Pradeep Kumar

10/06/21 16:38 PM IST

Assam’s 7th National Park

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The “last remaining stretches” of the Assam Valley tropical wet evergreen forests have become Assam’s seventh National Park

Highlights
  • The State government notified Dihing Patkai as a National Park, four days after creating the 422-sq. km Raimona National Park in western Assam’s Kokrajhar district.
  • The five older National Parks in the State are Kaziranga, Manas, Nameri, Orang and Dibru-Saikhowa. Kaziranga and Manas are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
  • They are also tiger reserves along with Nameri and Orang. The 234.26-sq. km Dihing Patkai straddling eastern Assam’s Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts is a major elephant habitat and 310 species of butterflies have been recorded there.
  • The park has 47 species each of reptiles and mammals, including the tiger and clouded leopard.
  • The newly notified National Park will be administered by the Soraipung Range of Digboi Forest Division and Jeypore Range of Dibrugarh Forest Division. Additional anti-poaching camps and manpower are being provided.
National park
  • It is a park in use for conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments.
  • Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns.
  • Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently, there is a common idea: the conservation of 'wild nature' for posterity and as a symbol of national pride.
Source: The Hindu

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