Namdapha National Park: A Complete Guide to Arunachal Pradesh’s Biodiversity Gem

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About Namdapha National Park

Namdapha National Park is the largest protected area in the Eastern Himalaya biodiversity hotspot and is located in Arunachal Pradesh in Northeast India. It is also the third-largest national park in India in terms of area. It is located in the Eastern Himalayan sub-region and is recognized as one of the richest areas in biodiversity in India.

Because of many different vegetation zones, The park is home to a great diversity of mammal species. Four big cat species occur in the park: snow leopards, clouded leopards, common leopards, and tigers. Other large predators are dholes, wolves, and Asiatic black bears. Smaller carnivores include red panda, red fox, yellow-throated marten, Eurasian otter, Oriental small-clawed otter, spotted linsang, binturong, common palm civet, small Indian civet, large Indian civet, masked palm civet, marbled cat, fishing cat, Asiatic golden cat, and two species of mongoose. Large herbivores are represented by elephants wild boar, forest musk deer, Indian muntjac, hog deer, sambar, gaur, common goral, mainland serow, takin, and bharal. Seven species of non-human primates including Stump-tailed macaque and Slow Loris, Hoolock Gibbons, Capped Langurs, Assamese Macaques, and Rhesus Macaques.

The park has about 425 bird species with many more to be recorded from work in the higher areas.

There are five species of Hornbills recorded from the area. Several species of rare wren-babblers have been recorded in Namdapha. Other bird groups include laughing thrushes, parrotbills, fulvettas, shrike babblers, and scimitar babblers.