Raimona Becomes Assam's Sixth National Park on World Environment Day

Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma on the occasion of World Environment Day announced that Raimona has been added to the latest addition to Assam's existing National Parks.

The CM said that with the new addition, Assam has six National Parks and the process is underway to convert Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary into a National Park. Assam Minister for Environment and Forest Parimal Suklabaidya, who attended the function, along with Minister for Guwahati Development Ashok Singhal, at Gandhi Mandap today said the announcement made by the Chief Minister has made this Day a red-letter day for the State and welcome news for wildlife lovers, nature lovers, and conservationists.

According to the reports, the Environment and Forest department issued the notification declaring Raimona as a National Park today.

The Raimona National Park, which falls under Kokrajhar district, is a part of a contiguous forest patch with an area of 422 square km, covering the northern part of the notified Ripu Reserve Forest, which forms the westernmost buffer to Manas Tiger Reserve in the southern foothills of Eastern Himalaya Biodiversity Hotspot.

The CM posted on Facebook, "A landmark step in environment restoration by Govt of Assam. On #WorldEnvironmentDay, a reserve forest in BTR has been declared as Raimona National Park. The newly declared National Park will be another addition to the State's endeavour in preserving its rich flora and fauna."

A forest official said, "Historically, the area was a part of the migratory route of the faunal species from Himalayan Mountain, Indo-Malayan and Indo-Chinese realms towards the west and Peninsular Indian realm species to the east. The new National Park shares contiguous forest patches of Phipsoo Wildlife Sanctuary and Jigme Singye Wangchuk National Park in Bhutan (total area of 1,999 square km), creating a trans-boundary conservation landscape of more than 2,400 square km."

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"Such secured trans-boundary ecological landscape will ensure long term conservation of endemic species like Golden Langur - the mascot of BTC - and endangered species like Asian Elephant, Royal Bengal Tiger and varied other flora and fauna species it supports," the official added.

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