GUWAHATI: Conservationists and wildlife activists in Assam are ecstatic as the state government has decided to upgrade the Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary into a national park. The decision was ...

The Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary is spread across 111.42 sq km, while the Dehing Patkai Elephant Reserve with 937 sq km of area surrounds the sanctuary in its periphery across Dibrugarh and ...

The Assam government on Monday decided to upgrade the Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary to a national park with the change in the tag being expected to boost the protection of the biodiversity hotspot ...

In a significant step towards protecting its rich flora and fauna, Assam’s Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary was recently upgraded as a National Park. The decision of the Assam state government ...

Jorhat, April 16: An NGO, associated with conservation of wildlife, will campaign to increase the area under Dehing Patkai wildlife sanctuary in Upper Assam. In wake of the poaching of a wild elephant ...

GUWAHATI: Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal on Monday asked the forest department to take necessary steps for the upgrade of Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary into a national park. “The chief minister ...

Guwahati (Assam) [India], July 6 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Monday announced that the Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary will soon be upgraded into a national park.Earlier in ...

Guwahati: Assam government on Monday decided to upgrade the Dehing Patkai wildlife sanctuary into a national park amid an ongoing row over allowing coal mining within its jurisdiction. HT Image ...

Besides elephants, leopards, hoolock gibbons, pangolins and bears, Dehing Patkai is also home to over 200 species of birds, various replies and many species of butterflies and orchids.

Once the sanctuary is given the National Park Status by the government, it will guarantee the protection of the flora and fauna and better management of Dehing Patkai.