{"id":29925,"date":"2026-04-13T12:19:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29925"},"modified":"2026-04-14T17:39:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:09:45","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 Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Dibru-Saikhowa National Park<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located in Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts, <\/span><b>Assam<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The park is <\/span><b>bounded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/brahmaputra-river-system\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brahmaputra<\/a> and Lohit Rivers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the north and the <\/span><b>Dibru River <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the south.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also a <\/span><b>Biosphere Reserve.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Climate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It has a <\/span><b>tropical monsoon climate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with a hot and wet summer and cool and usually dry winter.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Flora<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It mainly consists of <\/span><b>moist mixed semi-evergreen forests, moist mixed deciduous forests,<\/b> <b>canebrakes, and grasslands.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has the <\/span><b>largest salix swamp forest in northeastern India.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The forest consists of beautiful <\/span><b>pine vegetation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and some other common and rare <\/span><b>tropical trees<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> like Tetrasperma, Dalbergiasissoo, Dibru-Saikhowa, Dilleniaindica, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Fauna<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though the park was <\/span><b>primarily meant for the conservation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and development of the <\/span><b>White-winged wood duck<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in its natural habitat, it is also <\/span><b>famous for its bright colored wild horses<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> called the <\/span><b>Feral Horses.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the habitat of some rare and endangered animals such as the <\/span><b>Hoolock gibbon, water buffalo, tiger, elephant,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> capped langur, slow loris, and Gangetic river dolphin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an identified <\/span><b>Important Bird Area (IBA) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">having more than 382 species of birds, some of which are <\/span><b>Greater Adjutant Stork, Lesser Adjutant Stork, Greater Crested Grebe, etc.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/guwahati\/forest-guards-make-sure-democracy-roars-louder-than-tigers-in-dibru-saikhowa-national-park\/articleshow\/130152422.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dibru-Saikhowa National Park is located in Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts, Assam. 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