Namdapha National Park

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Forest landscape in Namdapha National Park

The Namdapha National Park is a protected area in northeast India . The park is located in the state of Arunachal Pradesh and extends over an area of ​​almost 2,000 square kilometers.

location

The Namdapha National Park is located in Arunachal Pradesh in northeast India. It is 1,985 square kilometers in size, of which 1,808 square kilometers are in the core zone. In the north the national park is bounded by the Kamlang game reserve , in the west the Noa Dihing river forms a natural border. In the south and southeast of the park, mountain ranges rise up to Myanmar . The altitudes of the reserve range from 200 m to 4571  m above sea level. In the park area there are 27 villages in which almost 10,000 people live. The Chakma are the majority among them .

Flora and fauna

Taguan ( Petaurista petaurista )
Nepal hornbill ( Aceros nipalensis ) in the national park

Since the terrain rises from low-lying areas to 4,500 meters above sea level, the vegetation is very diverse and ranges from tropical and subtropical rainforests at the foot of the mountains to temperate deciduous forests in middle elevations to alpine meadows and year-round snow fields. The fauna is correspondingly rich, including species from tropical Southeast Asia as well as species from the Himalayan region . Namdapha is a habitat for Bengal tigers , Indian leopards , clouded leopards and snow leopards . Other large predators include Asiatic wild dogs , wolves, and collar bears .

The large herbivores are also well represented and include, on the one hand, tropical species such as elephants, gaure , wild water buffalo, sambar deer , pig deer , Indian muntjacs and wild boars, but on the other hand also typical mountain animals such as gorals , seraue , takins and blue sheep . The monkey species are represented by seven species in the park; among which are slow loris , Hulock -Gibbon, rhesus macaque , stump-tailed macaque , Assam Macaque and capped langur . Smaller predators are represented by small pandas , binturongs and numerous cats and crawling cat species. For some of them, such as the Hulock gibbon, Namdapha is one of the last refuges. A study in winter 2006/2007 recorded 50 specimens of this rare monkey species in the national park area.

The bird world is abundant and represented, for example, by Nepalese crested eagles , gray peacock pheasants , masked owls and hornbills .

The national park is home to 69 species of mammals and 233 species of birds.

However, a recent study using camera traps found that the park's large animal populations are very low. The cause is likely to be excessive poaching. There were no signs of tigers in the park. The only large carnivore that has been recorded is the clouded leopard. Leopards and wild dogs could only be detected indirectly, through droppings and tracks, and are likely to be present in small populations. The same applies to the Gaur and the Serau. Only a small herd of elephants seems to still visit the park regularly. Populations of sambar deer, wild boar, Indian muntjacs and numerous small carnivore species have been reliably documented. However, a few years later, in 2012, a tiger was detected for the first time with the help of a camera trap. In addition, there are further recordings of other large animals, which proves that the animal population in the park is better than initially feared.

supporting documents

  • William Riley, Laura Riley: Nature's Strongholds. The World's Great Wildlife Reserves. Princeton University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-691-12219-9 .
  1. ↑ a b c Awadhesh Kumar, PP Mary, Pushkal Bagchie: Present distribution, population status, and conservation of Western Hoolock Gibbons Hoolock hoolock (Primates: Hylobatidae) in Namdapha National Park, India. In: JoTT PAPER. 1 (4), 2009, pp. 203-210.
  2. ^ A b Aparajita Datta, MO Anand, Rohit Naniwadekar: Empty forests: Large carnivore and prey abundance in Namdapha National Park, north-east India . In: Biological Conservation. Volume 141, Issue 5, May 2008, pp. 1429-1435.
  3. ^ KK Gurung, Raj Singh: Field Guide to the Mammals of the Indian Subcontinent, Academic Press, San Diego 1996, ISBN 0-12-309350-3 .
  4. ↑ D. Chetry, R. Medhi, J. Biswas, D. Das, PC Bhattacharjee: Nonhuman Primates in the Namdapha National Park, Arunachal Pradesh, India. In: International Journal of Primatology. 24 (2), 2003, pp. 383-388, doi: 10.1023 / A: 1023057401967 .
  5. ↑ Panthera: Abundant Signs of Life in India's Namdapha Tiger Reserve .

Web links

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Coordinates: 27 ° 38 '59.4 "  N , 96 ° 6' 37.1"  E