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Manas, at the base of foot hills
of the Bhutan-Himalayas in the state
of Assam, with unique biodiversity and
landscape is one of the first reserves
included in the network of tiger reserve
 under
Project tiger in 1973. It extends over
an area of 2837 Sq.Km from Sankosh river
in the west to Dhansiri river in the
east, with a core area of 500 Sq.Km.
of the National park, which declared
in 1990. The average elevation of the
area is 85 m above mean sea level. The
river Manas flows into the national
Park from the gorges of Bhutan and split
into two major streams of which the
main water course comes out of the National
Park about 30 km downstream is known
as 'Beki". The peace and tranquility
of Mothanguri tourists site on the bank
of river Manas close to Bhutan is the
rarest gift of the nature and in its
finest form. A total of 543 species
of plants (Pteridophytes and Angiosperms)
recorded from the area. Out of which
374 species belong to Dicotylendons
and 139 species to Monocotylendons.
60 species of mammals are recorded from
the reserve. 21 of them are placed in
Schedulue 1 categories. Of these 3 are
primates, the Capped Langur, the Golden
Langur and Slow Loris, while 6 are cats
namely Tiger, Black Panther, Leopard
Cat, Clouded Leopard, Golden Cat and
Fishing Cat. The Binturong, Sloth Bear,
Elephant, Indian Bison (Gaur), Sambar,
Asiatic water Buffalo, Swamp Deer, Parti-coloured
flying squirrel, Hispid Hare while the
pigs comprise of the wild Boar and the
Pygmy hog. The Pygmy hog, Hispid hare
and Golden Langur are among endemic
to this area. The only viable population
of the smallest and rarest wild suid,
the Pygmy hog, exists in Manas and nowhere
else in the world.
312 species of birds are recorded. Out
of this 10 are placed in Schedule I
category. These are Black-crested Baza,
Lagger Falcon, Shahin Falcon, Bengal
Florican, Pied Hornbill, Great Pied
Hornbill, Rufous necked Hornbill and
Peacock pheasant.
"MANAS NATIONAL PARK" was
added to UNESCO's World Heritage list
in 1985.
NOTE:
Guwahati to Barpeta Road is approximately
140 kms and takes three and half hours.
It takes further two hours to arrive
Mothanguri Forest Lodge in Manas even
though it is only 44 kms from Barpeta
Road, car can travel only 20 kms an
hour. Sighting of animal in Manas is
not so good as in Kaziranga but the
diversity of the habitat is very high.
Manas is probably a site of what the
earth looked like before the arrival
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