Place · Himalayan national park · India
Namdapha National Park
Namdapha, 1,985 square kilometres between the Dapha Bum peak and the Noa-Dihing river in Changlang district, is the largest protected area of the Eastern Himalaya and the only site in the world where four big cat species have been recorded — tiger, leopard, clouded leopard and the Namdapha snow leopard — along with the red panda, hoolock gibbon and Namdapha flying squirrel. The park's altitudinal range from 200 to 4,500 metres passes through tropical evergreen, subtropical, temperate and alpine forest in sixty kilometres. The Lisu people of the Vijaynagar enclave inside the park — descendants of Assam Rifles Burma-campaign veterans resettled in 1961 — are the only human community living within its core.
- Function
- Landscape & environmental change
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 27.483, 96.383
Connections (1)
- Site adjacencyApatani cultural landscape, Ziro
Namdapha National Park in Changlang district and the Apatani cultural landscape at Ziro in Lower Subansiri district are the two largest protected cultural-ecological zones of Arunachal Pradesh — Namdapha for its four big cats, red panda and hoolock gibbon, Ziro for the Apatani wet-rice paddy and bamboo-grove agroforestry system that UNESCO added to the Tentative List in 2014. Both are governed under the Inner Line Permit regime and are managed in collaboration with the Lisu, Chakma, Singpho and Apatani community councils of their respective districts.
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