TAG: GS-3: ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT
THE CONTEXT: The report published in the Journal of Biological Conservation said that the tiger population in Manas National Park in western Assam has tripled from 2011 to 2019.
Explanation:
About Manas National Park:
- It is located in the Himalayan foothills of Assam and is contiguous with Bhutan’s Royal Manas National Park.
- Manas National Park is a national park that has been given the status of UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site, an elephant reserve, a Project Tiger reserve, and a biosphere reserve.
- The park is famous for its endangered and rare endemic wildlife such as the hispid hare, Assam roofed turtle, pygmy hog, and golden langur.
- This national park is also famous for its wild water buffalo population
- It extends over an area of 2837 Sq. Km from Sankosh river in the west to Dhansiri river in the east, with a core area of 500 Sq. Km. of the National park, which was declared in 1990.
- River Manas flows into the national Park from the gorges of Bhutan and split into two major streams of which the main water course comes out of the National Park about 30 km downstream is known as ‘Beki”.
- Manas is the only landscape in the world where pristine Terai Grasslands are seen merging with the Bhabar grasslands interspersed with diverse habitats ascending to Semi-Evergreen forests and then to Bhutan Himalayas.
- The last population of the Pygmy Hog survives in the wilds of Manas and nowhere else in the world.
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