National Parks in Assam

There are seven majestic national park in Assam.
The state has the third most National Parks in India, after the 12 in Madhya Pradesh and 9 in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
The state has a rich biodiversity, with more than 35% of its land covered in forests.
The state is also home to many endangered species, including the tiger, rhinoceros, and elephant.
The Two Latest National Parks in Assam added in June 2021 are Dihing Patkai National Park and Raimona National Park.
Orang National Park, Dibru Saikhowa national park, Kaziranga national park, Manas national park, Nameri national park are the five other National Parks in Assam.

Dihing Patkai National Park Assam

It was declared a wildlife sanctuary in 2004
Dehing Patkai National Park in Assam is also a major Elephant Reserve, which spreads across the coal- and oil-rich districts of Upper Assam (Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts).
Dehing Patkai National Park is also known as the Jeypore Rainforest.
Dehing river flows through the National Park, and Patkai hills are the foothills of the Park.
234 sq. km park covering Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts is also the last remaining stretch of the Assam Valley’s tropical wet evergreen forests.
Fauna found here: Assamese macaque, Chinese pangolin, flying fox, gaur, serow, Malayan giant squirrels, wild pig, sambar and barking deer.
It is the only National Park in India that houses seven different species of wild cats – tiger, leopard, clouded leopard, leopard cat, golden cat, jungle cat and marbled cat.
The highest concentration of the rare endangered White Winged Wood Duck resides here.

Raimona National Park

Lies in Kokrajhar district, of the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) in the lower Assam encompassing 422 sq km.
Phipsoo wildlife sanctuary of Bhutan to its north, Buxa tiger reserve of West Bengal lies to its west and the Manas national park to its east.
The area of the Park includes the northern part of the notified Ripu Reserve Forest, which forms the buffer to the Manas National Park.
It is bounded by tributaries of the Brahmaputra, the Sonkosh river on the west and the Saralbhanga river on the east. The Pekua river makes Raimona national park’s southern boundary.
Raimona national park shares contiguous forest patches with Phipsoo Wildlife Sanctuary and Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park of Bhutan; together, they create a transboundary conservation area of more than 2,400 sq km.
The most famous endemic species in the Park is Golden Langur, other include Asian elephant, Royal Bengal tiger, Clouded leopard, Indian gaur, Wild water buffalo, Spotted deer, Hornbill.

Manas National Park

Manas National Park in Assam is located in the foothills of the Himalayas in the bhabar area of western Assam.
It spans the Manas river and is joined on the north by Bhutan’s Royal Manas National Park.
The Manas National Park shelters more than 22 endangered species, designated as Schedule 1 species in the Wildlife Protection Act and enjoy the highest level of protection in the country.
The Manas National Park provides critical and viable habitats for rare and endangered species, Tiger, Greater one-horned rhino, swamp deer, Pygmy hog and Bengal florican.
The wild buffalo population in Manas National Park is probably the only pure strain of this species still found in India.
Endemic species include pygmy hog, hispid hare and golden langur and The Endangered Bengal florican.

Kaziranga National Park

The Kaziranga National Park has one of India’s highest density of tigers and has been declared a Tiger Reserve since 2007.
Kaziranga National Park area is the single largest and undisturbed area lying in the Brahmaputra Valley floodplain.
This area comprises wet alluvial tall grassland, scattered with many broad, shallow pools fringed with vegetation patches of deciduous to semi-evergreen woodlands.
Riverbank erosion by the Brahmaputra river results in sedimentation and formation of new lands as well as new water-bodies
Succession between grasslands and woodlands in these newly formed sedimented lands represents outstanding examples of significant, continuous, dynamic ecological and biological processes.
Kaziranga National Park’s contribution and efforts in protecting the Indian one-horned rhinoceros from the brink of extinction in the 20th century to now having the single largest population of one-horned rhinoceros species is a remarkable conservation achievement.
The park is located at the juncture of the Australasia and Indo-Asian flyway, which means that the park’s wetlands play a major role in conserving globally threatened migratory bird species.
The Kaziranga National Park also harbors significant populations of other threatened species, including Tigers, Elephants, Wild water buffalo, Bears, Gaur, eastern swamp deer, Sambar deer, hog deer, capped langur, hoolock gibbon and Sloth bear.

Dibru Saikhowa National Park

Dibru Saikhowa National Park in Assam is both a National Park and a Biosphere Reserve, lying on the south bank of the river Brahmaputra in the extreme east in the Tinsukia district of state Assam in India.
Dibru Saikhowa National Park is part of a large river island, hemmed by the Brahmaputra, Lohit and Dibru rivers.
The park is bounded by the Brahmaputra and Lohit Rivers in the north and the Dibru river in the south.
The Dibru Saikhowa National Park has a tropical monsoon climate with a hot and wet summer and cool and dry winter.
Dibru Saikhowa National Park is famed for its Feral horses, Other notable species found are Tiger, Elephant, Leopard, Sambar, Slow Loris, Assamese Macaque, Rhesus Macaque, Barking Deer, Water Buffalo.

Orang National Park

The Orang National Park in Assam has been officially renamed the Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park.
The Orang National Park is situated on the north bank of the Brahmaputra river in the Darrang & Sonitpur districts of Assam
The Pachnoi river and the Dhansiri rivers flow along the eastern and western boundaries of Orang National Park, respectively. Both these rivers are tributaries of the Brahmaputra.
The terrain of Orang National Park is flat, being the floodplain of these rivers.
Orang National Park is an important habitat for the Indian One-horned Rhinoceros and Tigers.
The grasslands of the Park also support healthy populations of the Swamp Francolin, Bengal Florican, Lesser Adjutant and Pallas’s Fish-Eagle.
Other notable species in Orang National Park are: A healthy population of Tiger, Hog Deer, Wild Pig, Asiatic Elephants and Gangetic Dolphin also occurs in the rivers.

Nameri National Park

Nameri National Park in Assam is located in the Sonitpur district, in northern Assam,
Nameri National Park also has the designation of Tiger reserve under Project Tiger
Nameri lies on the interstate border between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.
Nameri used to be part of the Naduar Reserve Forest before becoming a National Park.
The Jia-Bhareli river flow through the Nameri National Park along with its tributaries: The Nameri river, Upper Dikorai river and Bor Dikorai river
Nameri National Park is home to various globally threatened birds and mammals.
The most secure population of the endangered species White-winged Duck is found here on the north bank of the Brahmaputra river.
Nameri National Park is famous for its population of Asian elephants and tigers.