Manas National Park

 Hog deer ( Axis pornicus )   or Xugori Pahu (Assamese), is a small tropical deer which inhabits grasslands. It is named as 'Hog' deer because of its habit of running through the undergrowth in a head down posture. The coat color is brown with yellowish or reddish tinge and many have a speckled appearance. The fawns usually have white spots on their skin. They stand at the height less than a meter. The males being slightly larger than females. They weigh 35-45kg and only males have antlers which is a characteristic of deer group. It is a solitary animal but congregates together during feeding. Mother-fawn association can be seen after the fawning season. The lifespan of hog deer is 15-18 years. Distribution and Population Historically hog deer was known to occur from Pakistan, northern & northeast India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Lao PDR. But it has undergone dramatic range-wide declines largely, unnoticed. pres...

I have spent most of the time deep in the forest. My profession effortlessly provides me much joy inside the forest.  I get the unbeaten path of wild all of my jungle activities. I get love affection and care from the wilderness. In the first week of June 2017, I traveled to Manas with Dr.(Prof) Kushal Konwar Sarma from Guwahati. We started post-lunch hours of the day and reached Mathanguri around 8:00 pm.  Dr. Bhaskar Choudhury (Wild Life Trust of India), Dr. Prabhat Bsuamtary (Veterinary Surgeon of Manas Tiger Reserve) accompanied by us from the Bansbari range Head Quarter of Manas NP. Mr. Babul Brahma (Range Incharge ) arranged our booking at heritage inspection(Upper) bungalow of the forest department. Dr, Prabhat Basumatary arranged a special local brew with roasted pork. It was like get together after 4 years at Mathaguri. It was raining catch and dogs and we hang out with our nostalgic experience. It was not a general tourist ...

A panoramic view of Royal Manas National Park Bhutan from India side Royal Manas National Park (RMNP) is oldest protected areas of Bhutan. It was established as Game Sanctuary and finally Wildlife Sanctuary in the early sixties. It was declared as National Park in the year 1993.Royal Manas National Park is the contiguous habitat of India's Manas National Park. Pristine natural landscape encompasses total 1057 square kilometer with core areas of 653 square kilometers. Royal Manas National Park is one of the most potential tourism prospect areas among Transboundary Manas (TraMCA) Conservation Areas. The Beautiful natural landscape of Royal Manas inhabits many globally significant wildlife species. The Park has so far recorded (till 2015) mammals (65sps); birds (486 sp);  Herpetofauna (32 sp); Fishes (69sp) & Butterfly (181 sp). Climate almost similar with Indian Manas areas. It is moist subtropical to cool temperature. Mean annual rainfal...

Human-Wildlife Conflict mainly conflicts with the wild elephant is now major issues in Asian wild elephant ranging areas. Both human and wild elephants life lost as result of the conflict . Thousand hacters of crop damage due to elephant raid. So this is now a burning issue. Different Therefore conservation agencies undertook much research on reducing this conflict to save elephant as well as human life and its property.  In Assam, WWF-India has been promoting very effective and technologically efficient Low-Cost Solar Electric Fence. This is very cheap and need not require much investment. I herewith present simple infographic for all of my readers.  We have used the similar model in Manas NP and got the significant result to control human-elephant as well as human-rhino conflict. This fence is now helping many poor farmers from elephant raids and their life and property. In Poba Reserve, Jonai I have observed that people economic condi...

It is extraordinary silence prevails at Manas. Nature gives promises creation when summer falls. Green is the silence, wet is the light and month of June trembled like a butterfly. Love summer beauty of Manas. Have nice time.

Rhino search operation team at Manas National Park 

Road toward Narenguri Narenguri (nareng= citrus fruits,) name suggests the existence of a place where probably the abundant amount of such fruits are grown or found. But in reality now is a barren tract land within the cradle of Beki with little or no permanent vegetation as the fate being decided and shaped by the mighty and totally unpredictable Beki River carved out the build and destroyed up merged and submerged accordingly to her needs and will changing its course almost every summer. A true pencil scribbles of nature as we may say so. As we say the name it brings a question to our mind why how and when..???? Yes and that brings us to that point to see what's where. Manas-Beki have innumerable such type of stories untold and the story of Narenguri is just a glimpse of the strength in fact wrath of Nature. The village falls just at the southern boundary of MNP and it is now a full-fledged island city off through the land from all sides by river Beki. Full of sand ...