{"id":25501,"date":"2026-07-20T11:58:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25501"},"modified":"2026-07-20T13:24:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T07:54:50","slug":"hoollongapar-gibbon-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/hoollongapar-gibbon-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoollongapar Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Hoollongapar Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assam&#8217;s Hoollongapar Sanctuary, which is home to the endangered western hoolock gibbon, is also one of the richest butterfly habitats in the state where several of the rare winged beauties are found, says a new book.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Hoollongapar Gibbon 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 in the Jorhat 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 is <\/span><b>named after <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><b>Hoolock Gibbon<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>only ape species<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> found in <\/span><b>India<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It has the thickest gibbon populations in Assam.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>River<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The <\/span><b>Bhogdoi River c<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reates a waterlogged region dominated by semi-hydrophytic plants along the border of the sanctuary.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Vegetation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Most of the vegetation is <\/span><b>evergreen <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in character and is composed of several canopy layers.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Flora<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The<\/span><b> tall hollong trees<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> form the<\/span><b> upper canopy <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(at around 90 feet), the <\/span><b>Nahar trees <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">form the <\/span><b>middle canopy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (at 30 feet) and the shrubs form the lower canopy.\u00a0<\/span><\/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;\">It is home to the <\/span><b>only nocturnal primate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> found in the <\/span><b>northeast Indian states<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>Bengal slow loris.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Other primate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s include the <\/span><b>stump-tailed macaque, northern pig-tailed macaque, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eastern Assamese macaque, rhesus macaque, and <\/span><b>capped langur.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also found at the sanctuary are I<\/span><b>ndian elephants, tigers, leopards,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> jungle cats, wild boar, three types of civet, four types of squirrel, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sanctuary is home to over <\/span><b>200 species of birds,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> including several rare and <\/span><b>endangered species,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> such as the<\/span><b> white-winged wood duck, the Bengal florican, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and the<\/span><b> great hornbill. <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News<\/b><strong>:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/assamtribune.com\/assam\/beyond-gibbons-assams-hoollongapar-hosts-281-butterfly-species-says-new-book-1614468\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>AT<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoollongapar Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary is located in the Jorhat district of Assam, India. 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