GUWAHATI: Environment and Forest Minister Parimal Suklabaidya has said that the two newly inaugurated National Parks of Assam will open up vistas of opportunities for unemployed youth. He was speaking at the formal inauguration of the Dehing Patkai National Park, the seventh National Park in Assam.
The Dehing Patkai National Park, which falls under the Jeypore and Soraipung ranges of Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts in Assam respectively, covers an area of over 234 sq km. It is part of the last remaining patches of the Assam Valley Tropical Wet Evergreen Forests, and is home to elephants, hoolock gibbons, golden cats, clouded leopard, and other animals. To date, 47 mammal species, 47 reptile species, and 310 butterfly species have been recorded in the area.
Thanking the people of Jeypore, the Assam Minister said that a long-drawn-out conservation movement had to be undertaken for the establishment of the national park. “The rich and faunal diversity of the park well known for its rainforest will soon attain the stature of one of the best National Parks in the country,’ said Suklabaidya.
