Behali Reserve Forest in Assam

Subject – Environment

Context – Five primate carcasses found in Assam forest

Concept –

Behali Reserved Forest, located in the Biswanath district of Assam is a patch of semi-evergreen forest in the foothills of Eastern Himalayas.
This forest is anpart of the greater Sonitpur Elephant Reserve and was declared as a reserved forest in 1917.
It lies between the two famous protected areas, the Nameri National Park on its west and Kaziranga National Park on its south.
It is also recognized as an Important Bird Area in 1994 and a Key Biodiversity Area in 2004.
The area is bordered in the east by the Buroi River, west by Borgang river, the north side is by Papum Reserve of Arunachal Pradesh and several human habitations, tea plantations and paddy fields in the south.
Fauna – Apart from the rare capped langur, the Behali Reserve Forest houses the endangered slow loris, the near-threatened Assamese macaque and the rhesus macaque.