Dibru-Saikhowa National Park

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As polling ended at the remote Laika and Dodhia polling stations inside Dibru Saikhowa National Park in upper Assam, armed forest guards, not police, escorted polling teams back to district headquarters in Tinsukia and Dibrugarh, respectively.

About Dibru-Saikhowa National Park

• It is located in Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts, Assam.
• The park is bounded by the Brahmaputra and Lohit Rivers in the north and the Dibru River in the south. 
• It is also a Biosphere Reserve. 
• Climate: It has a tropical monsoon climate with a hot and wet summer and cool and usually dry winter.
• Flora: 
  • It mainly consists of moist mixed semi-evergreen forests, moist mixed deciduous forests, canebrakes, and grasslands.
  • It has the largest salix swamp forest in northeastern India. 
  • The forest consists of beautiful pine vegetation and some other common and rare tropical trees like Tetrasperma, Dalbergiasissoo, Dibru-Saikhowa, Dilleniaindica, etc.
• Fauna: 
  • Though the park was primarily meant for the conservation and development of the White-winged wood duck in its natural habitat, it is also famous for its bright colored wild horses called the Feral Horses.
  • It is the habitat of some rare and endangered animals such as the Hoolock gibbon, water buffalo, tiger, elephant, capped langur, slow loris, and Gangetic river dolphin.
  • It is an identified Important Bird Area (IBA) having more than 382 species of birds, some of which are Greater Adjutant Stork, Lesser Adjutant Stork, Greater Crested Grebe, etc.

Source: TOI

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