GUWAHATI: Assam has cleared 22,000 bighas of encroached land at Orang National Park and extended its protected area. Although several sections had protested the expansion of the national park, it was a giant step for the state towards biodiversity preservation.
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Orang National Park now flows into Kaziranga National Park and the Burha-Chapori Wildlife Sanctuary in such a manner as to create an uninterrupted 180-kilometer-long protected corridor for wildlife to roam about and thrive in.
Assam Chief Minister lauded the achievement as a major victory in wildlife conservation on X (Formerly known as Twitter, saying,
Orang National Park is one of the prime sites for conservation of endangered species such as the pygmy hog and the blind Gangetic dolphin, and it harbours a great one-horned rhino and the royal Bengal tiger population. There are over 50 fish species besides the rich birdlife for which the site is an important BirdLife International site.