Official e-resource of Tinsukia Wildlife Division, Department of Environment and Forests, Government of Assam, India
About the Division
- ABOUT THE DIVISION
- Headquartered in the frontier district of Tinsukia in Assam, Tinsukia Wildlife Division is responsible for the administration and management of two protected areas. Dibru Saikhowa National Park located in Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts of upper Assam forms the major responsibility of the Division while Bherjan-Borajan-Padumoni Wildlife Sanctuary, located in Tinsukia forms the other. The Division came into being in 1989 based on the felt need of specialized management of wildlife and their habitats when the erstwhile Dibru and Saikhowa Reserve Forests were merged and declared as a sanctuary in 1986. Later, the sanctuary was upgraded to a National Park in 1999 owing to its rich, rare and range restricted flora and fauna. In 1997, as community participation in forest and wildlife management became increasingly en vogue, the area was also declared as a Biosphere Reserve under the aegis of United Nation's Man and Biosphere programme. Bherjan-Borajan-Padumoni Wildlife sanctuary came into being by declaring three fragmented and disjunct reserve forests patches of the same name as a protected area.
Dibru Saikhowa is famous for its Salix (Willow) patches: Photo by Ranjan Kumar Das