Namdapha Tiger Reserve:
Employees of Namdapha National Park and Tiger Reserve in Arunachal Pradesh engaged under the Centre’s Project Tiger have raised wage issue.
- Namdapha Tiger Reserve is located in Arunachal Pradesh.
- It is named after the river Namdapha originating from Daphabum, the highest mountain peak in the reserve.
- This area was originally Reserved Forests and was declared as Wildlife Sanctuary in 1972
- It was declared as a Tiger Reserve in 1983 under Project Tiger scheme.
- It has a dense cover of vegetation with high hills, and numerous rivers and seasonal streams.
- The vegetation of the reserve is mainly tropical evergreen rainforest, with very dense and multi-layered forest structure.
- The forests include thick growth of bamboo, cane, wild banana, and other undergrowth, making them almost impenetrable in some areas.
- It is home to four big cats viz. tiger, leopard, clouded leopard and snow leopard
- Other animals like Hoolock Gibbon, Golden Cat, Marbled Cat, Mishmi Takin, Red Panda, Namdapha Flying Squirrels are found here.
