Barak Bhuban wildlife sanctuary

About Barak Bhuban wildlife sanctuary: 

• Location: It is located in Assam's Barak Valley. (The Barak Valley also houses the Borail Wildlife Sanctuary).
• It is nestled between the Barak and Sonai rivers.
• It is named after the second-largest river in the northeast and is spread across three districts – Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj.
• Fauna:
  • It serves as a critical habitat for a diverse range of wildlife.
  • Eight primate species, including the slow loris, rhesus macaque, and hoolock gibbon, find refuge here. The sanctuary is also known to be a vital habitat for the king cobra.

Key facts about the Barak Valley

• It is located in the Southern part of Assam.
• It is named after the river Barak, the largest river of the valley and second largest of Northeast India.
• The area shares its border with other states like Meghalaya in the north, Manipur in the east, Tripura and Mizoram in the south, and is flanked with the transnational boundary of Bangladesh in the south.
• It is a part of the Indo Myanmar biodiversity hotspot.
• Approximately 4.8% geographical area of the valley is covered by tea plantations and remaining most of the hillock areas are either in home gardens or under reserve forests.
• Vegetation: The forests in the valley are tropical evergreen, semi-evergreen, tropical deciduous, and secondary and there are large tracts of rainforests in the northern and southern eastern parts of the valley.
• Climate: The climate of the valley is characterized by subtropical, warm and humid.

Q1: What is biodiversity?

It is that part of nature that includes the variety of genes among the individuals of a species, the variety and richness of all the plant and animal species in an ecosystem and various types of ecosystems on the earth. 

Source: NGT stays road work inside Barak Bhuban wildlife sanctuary, issues notices to Assam and Centre