After its lactating mother died due to electrocution in Golaghat district on Sunday, a 75-day-old elephant calf was rescued on Thursday by forest department personnel with the help of the residents of Miripathar village in Golaghat .
An official of the Assam Forest and Environment Department said that the calf s 18-year-old mother died due to electrocution at Dholagaon Pathar in the wee hours of Sunday.
Dihing Patkai is Assam’s 7th National Park
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It has 47 species each of reptiles and mammals, including tiger and clouded leopard.
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It has 47 species each of reptiles and mammals, including tiger and clouded leopard.
The “last remaining stretches” of the Assam Valley tropical wet evergreen forests have become Assam’s seventh National Park.
The State government on Wednesday notified Dihing Patkai as a National Park, four days after creating the 422-sq. km Raimona National Park in western Assam’s Kokrajhar district.
Assam now has the third most National Parks after the 12 in Madhya Pradesh and nine in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, forest officials said.