{"id":29925,"date":"2025-08-18T11:19:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T05:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29925"},"modified":"2025-08-18T14:08:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T08:38:18","slug":"dibru-saikhowa-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dibru-saikhowa-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Dibru Saikhowa National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Dibru-Saikhowa National Park<\/b> <b>Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new study has identified at least two native plants Bombax ceiba and Lagerstroemia speciosa that have joined invasive species to alter the riverine ecosystem of eastern Assam\u2019s Dibru-Saikhowa National Park.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Dibru-Saikhowa National Park<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is a <\/span><b>national park located<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts, <\/span><b>Assam, India.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was designated a <\/span><b>Biosphere Reserve by <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UNESCO in 1997.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Rivers:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The park is bounded by the <\/span><b>Brahmaputra and Lohit Rivers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the <\/span><b>north<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Dibru River in the south.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Vegetation:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It mainly consists of <\/span><b>moist mixed semi-evergreen forests<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, moist mixed deciduous forests, canebrakes and grasslands.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>the largest salix swamp<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> forest in north-eastern India, with a <\/span><b>tropical monsoon climate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with a hot and wet summer and cool and usually dry winter.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Flora:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It consists of Dillenia indica, Bischofia javanica, Bombax ceiba, Lagerstroemia parviflora, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Fauna:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Tiger, Elephant, Leopard, Jungle Cat, Bears, Small Indian Civet, Squirrels, Gangetic Dolphin, Slow Loris, Assamese Macague<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>only habitat of feral horses<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/grassland-invaders-stifle-assams-island-like-national-park\/article69943121.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>TH<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dibru Saikhowa National Park  is a National Park as well as a Biosphere Reserve situated in the south bank of the river Brahmaputra in the extreme east of Assam state in India. Read more about Dibru Saikhowa National Park, Vegetation,  Fauna, Flora, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":59850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2241,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-29925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-dibru-saikhowa-national-park","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29925","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=29925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}