Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary: In News
A large-scale eviction drive is underway at the Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam’s Nagaon district with the administration clearing alleged encroachments spread across hundreds of bighas of cultivated land.
- Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary is located on the southern part of the Brahmaputra River in the Nagaon District of Assam.
- It forms an integral part of the Laokhowa-Burachapori ecosystem and is a notified buffer of the Kaziranga Tiger Reserve.
- It is a part of the Brahmaputra valley.
- The sanctuary is surrounded by human-dominated areas on all sides except for the north.
- The vegetation composition of Laokhowa can be broadly categorized into alluvial grassland, alluvial forest, moist deciduous forest, and tropical semi-evergreen forest.
- The sanctuary is home to the Great Indian-one horned rhinoceros, elephants, royal Bengal tigers, Asiatic water buffaloes and more than 225 species of birds.
- Some of the birds spotted here are the spot-billed pelican, little and large cormorant, egret, open-billed stork, brahminy kite, pond heron, etc.
