{"id":30673,"date":"2025-03-09T01:48:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T20:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30673"},"modified":"2025-04-11T09:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T03:49:14","slug":"dehing-patkai-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dehing-patkai-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Dehing Patkai National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Dehing Patkai National Park Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>A camera trap inside Dehing Patkai National Park has recorded a rare sighting of a Clouded Leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), a species classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.<\/p>\n<h2>About Dehing Patkai National Park<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in the Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts of <strong>Assam<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It lies in the <strong>Dehing Patkai Landscape,<\/strong> which is a dipterocarp-dominated <strong>lowland rainforest.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is situated at the <strong>foothills of Patkai Hill Ranges<\/strong>, on the <strong>banks of the River Dehing <\/strong>(Tributary of Brahmaputra), and <strong>adjacent to the Namdapha Wildlife Sanctuary.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is often referred to as the <strong>\u2018Amazon of the East\u2018<\/strong> owing to its expanse and the thick forest.<\/li>\n<li>It is famous for its <strong>largest stretch of tropical lowland rainforests in India,<\/strong> covering an area of 231.65 sq.km. of Dehing Patkai rainforest.<\/li>\n<li>It was declared a wildlife sanctuary on 13 June 2004. On 13 December 2020, Government of Assam upgraded it into a national park.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>climate <\/strong>of the region is <strong>mostly tropical<\/strong> with an annual <strong>rainfall of more than 4,000 mm.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>There are more than a dozen different <strong>ethnic groups <\/strong>living in the area including the <strong>indigenous Assamese communities,<\/strong> particularly Tai Phake, Khamyang, Khampti, Singpho, Nocte, Ahom, Kaibarta, Moran and Motok, Burmese, and <strong>non-indigenous Nepali people.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Vegetation<\/strong>: The park is a<strong> deciduous rainforest<\/strong> with <strong>semi-evergreen<\/strong> and lush green flora.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora<\/strong>: It is dominated by species like <strong>Hollong, Nahor, Mekai, <\/strong>Paroli, Simul, various <strong>orchids, ferns, <\/strong>cane, and <strong>bamboo<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna<\/strong>: The rich biodiversity includes diverse species such as <strong>slow loris, pig-tailed macaque,<\/strong> stump-tailed macaque, capped langur, Indian leopard, <strong>Asian elephant, r<\/strong>oyal Bengal <strong>tiger<\/strong>, gaur, Himalayan black bear, <strong>clouded leopard,<\/strong> barking deer, <strong>Chinese pangolin, etc.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Dehing Patkai National Park FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. In which state is Dehing Patkai National Park?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Assam<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Which river flows through Dehing Patkai National Park?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. River Dehing (Tributary of Brahmaputra)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is Patkai?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Patkai refers to the Patkai Hills, a mountain range in Northeast India along the border with Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northeasttoday.in\/2025\/03\/07\/assam-rare-clouded-leopard-captured-on-camera-in-dehing-patkai-national-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NET<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dehing Patkai National Park is located in the Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts of Assam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30673","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=30673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}