Friday 10 July 2020

Assam govt decides to upgrade Dehing Patkai wildlife sanctuary to a national park

Assam govt decides to upgrade Dehing Patkai wildlife sanctuary to a national park

Assam government  decided to upgrade the Dehing Patkai wildlife sanctuary into a national park

Spread across 937 square kilometres, Dehing Patkai Elephant Reserve falls in Upper Assam’s Tinsukia and Dibrugarh districts and is located within the periphery of the Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary, which is said to be the largest lowland tropical rainforest in India.

Besides elephants, leopards, hoolock gibbons, pangolins and bears, Dehing Patkai is also home to over 200 species of birds, various replies and many species of butterflies and orchids.

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