{"id":19057,"date":"2026-07-05T13:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19057"},"modified":"2026-07-06T18:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:32:24","slug":"laokhowa-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/laokhowa-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A large-scale eviction drive is underway at the Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam&#8217;s Nagaon district with the administration clearing alleged encroachments spread across hundreds of bighas of cultivated land.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located on the <\/span><b>southern part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/brahmaputra-river-system\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brahmaputra River<\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the Nagaon District <\/span><b>of Assam.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It forms an integral part of <\/span><b>the Laokhowa-Burachapori ecosystem<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and is a notified buffer of the <\/span><b>Kazairanga Tiger Reserve.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a part of the <\/span><b>Brahmaputra valley.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sanctuary is surrounded by human-dominated areas on all sides except for the north.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Flora:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The vegetation composition of Laokhowa can be broadly categorized into alluvial grassland, alluvial forest, moist\u00a0 deciduous forest, and tropical semi-evergreen forest.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Fauna\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sanctuary is home to the <\/span><b>great Indian-one horned rhinoceros<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, elephants, royal Bengal tigers, Asiatic water buffaloes and more than 225 species of birds.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the birds spotted here are the spot-billed pelican, little and large cormorant, egret, open-billed stork, brahminy kite, pond heron, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatodayne.in\/amp\/assam\/video\/mass-eviction-drive-underway-at-assams-laokhowa-wildlife-sanctuary-locals-allege-assault-by-officials-1418088-2026-07-03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary is located on the southern part of the Brahmaputra River in the Nagaon District of Assam. Read more about Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary, Flora, Fauna, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3567,21,22,23],"class_list":["post-19057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-laokhowa-wildlife-sanctuary","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19057"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111446,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19057\/revisions\/111446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}