{"id":19057,"date":"2025-11-03T12:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19057"},"modified":"2025-11-06T11:14:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:44:15","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<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Civil society organisations and conservationists in Assam have urged authorities to declare the Roumari-Donduwa Wetland Complex within Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary as a Ramsar Site, citing its international ecological significance and rich avian biodiversity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>About Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><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 of <\/span><b>Assam<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It covers an area of around 70.13 sq.km.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It forms an<\/span><b> integral part of the Laokhowa-Burachapori ecosystem<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and is a notified <\/span><b>buffer of the Kazairanga Tiger Reserve.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>It is a <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">part of the Brahmaputra valley.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><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 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Flora<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The vegetation composition of Laokhowa can be broadly categorized into<\/span><b> alluvial grassland, alluvial forest, moist\u00a0 deciduous forest,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>tropical semi-evergreen forest.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Fauna<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sanctuary is home to the <\/span><b>great Indian-one horned rhinoceros, elephants, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">royal Bengal tigers, Asiatic water buffaloes and more than <\/span><b>225 species of birds.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\">Some of the birds spotted here are the <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">spot-billed pelican, little and large cormorant, egre<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>t<\/strong>, open-billed stork, brahminy kite, pond heron, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/thenewsmill.com\/2025\/10\/assam-civil-society-groups-seek-ramsar-status-for-roumari-donduwa-wetland-complex-in-laokhowa-wildlife-sanctuary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NM<\/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. 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