Raimona National Park : In News
Personnel of the Assam Forest Department and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) recently arrested three poachers from the Raimona National Park in Kokrajhar.
- Raimona National Park is located along the Indo-Bhutan border in Kokrajhar district in the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR), Assam.
- It was declared a national park on June 5, 2021.
- It shares contiguous forest patches of Phibsoo Wildlife Sanctuary and Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park in Bhutan, creating a trans-boundary conservation landscape of more than 2,400 sq km.
- The Sankosh River runs beside the west of the park and the Saralbhanga River on the eastern part.
- The park is famous for its endemic species, golden langur, which has been named the mascot of the Bodoland region.
- It is also inhabited by various other species, such as elephants, Bengal tiger, wild bison, white-spotted deer, clouded leopard and wild buffalo.
