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Sunit Kr. Das
  Sundarbans is the last mangrove habitat on earth with bagh or the Royal Bengal tiger. Tigers have been roaming its surface since much before human settlement. This place is not only a composition of mangrove and tidal mudflats, twisting rivers and creeks, but is also a mystifying panorama of…
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Sayantani Chatterjee
Sundarbans is the world’s largest contiguous mangrove forest created at the confluence of the deltas of Rivers Brahmaputra, Ganga and Meghna. The delta spreads across the countries of India and Bangladesh covering 80,000 km2 with 38 per cent of  the area in India and the remaining in Bangladesh. In…
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Sayantani Chatterjee
Basistha, Sudip Kanta. 2006. ‘Taxonomy and Distribution of Fish Fauna of Beki Manas River System.’ PhD thesis. Faculty of Science, Gauhati University.     Bhattacharjya, D.K., A. Kar, et al. 2015. ‘Notes on Herbal Treatment Practiced by the People of Fringe Villages of Manas National Park, India,’…
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Jimmy Borah
The cool winter morning was an ideal day to be outdoors and in the field. The five of us were strolling down in the heat as we walked across the mixed forest of Manas National Park (MNP) looking for signs of tigers near the breathtaking Manas river, adjacent to the famous Mathunguri guest house of…
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Shristi Goswami
Manas National Park is situated in the state of Assam which is in the northeast of India. It lies at the foothills of the Himalayas and the region is one of the main biodiversity hotspots of India. Manas was initially a reserved forest but the Forest Policy Act of 1952 held the poor responsible for…
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Sayantani Chatterjee
Manas National Park is situated in the state of Assam, at the foothills of the Himalayas. The Park has a Project Tiger Reserve, a Biosphere Reserve, an Elephant Reserve as well as Important Bird Areas (IBA). The Park provides habitat for 22 of India’s most threatened animals listed in Schedule 1 of…
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