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.
With the notification of two more National Parks in Assam on Wednesday, the northeastern state now has seven such parks, the second most after Madhya Pradesh, and the Andaman and Nicobar Isslands, which have nine each, state Environment and .
The CM said that with the new addition, Assam has six National Parks and the process is underway to convert Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary into a National Park