Raimona National Park

Nov. 27, 2024

Personnel of the Assam Forest Department and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) recently arrested three poachers from the Raimona National Park in Kokrajhar.

About Raimona National Park:

  • It is located along the Indo-Bhutan border in Kokrajhar district in the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR), Assam.
  • It was declared a national park on June 5, 2021.
  • It shares contiguous forest patches of Phibsoo Wildlife Sanctuary and Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park in Bhutan, creating a trans-boundary conservation landscape of more than 2,400 sq km.
  • Rivers: The Sankosh River runs beside the west of the park and the Saralbhanga River on the eastern part.
  • Vegetation: It includes as many as twelve different types and sub-types of forests ranging from very moist sal forests, sub-Himalayan high alluvial semi-evergreen forests, savannah forests, moist-mixed deciduous forests, riparian fringing forests, to khair-sissoo forests.
  • Flora: This park flourishes with myriads of orchid species, other tropical rainforest species, and riverine grasslands.
  • Fauna: 
  • The park is famous for its endemic species, golden langur, which has been named the mascot of the Bodoland region. 
  • It is also inhabited by various other species, such as elephants, Bengal tiger, wild bison, white-spotted deer, clouded leopard and wild buffalo. 

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