Namdapha National Park is a national park in the Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh, India, covering about 1,985 square kilometers and ranking as the fourth-largest national park in the country. It began as a wildlife sanctuary in 1972 and was established as a national park in 1983, and it contains the northernmost lowland evergreen rainforest in the world at 27 degrees north latitude, with extensive dipterocarp forest. The park is a major Eastern Himalayan biodiversity hotspot, holding more than 1,000 recorded plant species and roughly 1,400 recorded animal species, and it was designated an eco-sensitive zone in 2024.
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1. Namdapha National Park (Wikipedia)
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Namdapha National Park is a 1,985.23 km2 (766.50 sq mi) large national park in Arunachal Pradesh of Northeast India.
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Government of Arunachal Pradesh, Government of India
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Government of Arunachal Pradesh, Government of India
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