By Nava Thakuria
PPFA appreciates Dispur gesture on Dehing Patkai National Park
Guwahati: A state government notification to upgrade the existing wildlife sanctuary by constituting Dehing Patkai National Park is expected to safeguard a huge stretch of contiguous virgin forestlands. A demand to this respect was made by the Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA), a forum of nationalists comprising eminent persons and intelligentsia of Assam.
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The Governor of Assam in exercising the powers conferred under Section 35(1 & 2) of the Wildlife Protection Act 1972, recently issued a preliminary notification to this effect. The district magistrates of Tinsukia and Dibrugarh have been appointed to act as collectors under the wildlife protection laws for their respective districts in order to inquire into and determine the existence, nature and extent of rights of any person in or over the land comprised within the determined limits for constituting the national park.
At presently the wildlife sanctuary covers 111.19 sq km on the southern bank of Brahmaputra river. Named after Dehing / Dihing (a river flows through it) and Patkai (the hill which supports the forest), the sanctuary gives shelter to a large number of Asiatic elephants with over 290 species of bird, 50 species of butterfly, 45 species of mammal, 25 species of reptile, thousands species of insects.
Extending appreciations to the State government in Dispur for fulfilling its commitment to upgrade Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary to a National Park, the (PPFA) said the move would protect a large varieties of flora & fauna conserving the pristine rainforests in eastern Himalayan region, which is often termed as Amazon of the East.
“PPFA congratulates the members of pioneer conservation group Nature’s Beckon in particular as they continued raising voices for protecting the contiguous forest covers comprising Joypur, upper Dehing and Dirak reserve forests,” said a statement adding that the organisation should continue its endeavour with the confidence of mass people in the environmentally sensitive State.
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