Landscape Initiative for the Far Eastern Himalaya

GBPNIHE Namdapha National Park and Tiger Reserve

Namdapha National Park and Tiger Reserve is the world’s northernmost tropical rainforest with the highest species richness among all protected ~935 ~505 Other diversity 2(i) areas in . It is spread over 1985 sq. km of dense forests in eastern species of flowering plants species of birds Arunachal Pradesh and borders the Hponkanrazi Wildlife Sanctuary (includes monocots and dicots) Total reptiles: 60 and Hukaung Valley Tiger Reserve in Myanmar. It has some of the last Total amphibians: 37 remaining rainforests in northeast India and contains the last large tracts of lowland Dipterocarp forests in Southeast Asia. The PA and its fringe Total fishes: 75 areas have rich cultural diversity, with many tribal groups residing there, Total butterflies: 313 including the Singhpo, Tangsa, Tutsa, Lisu, and Chakma. EN EN CR CR CR Total insects: 495 Hollong Ward’s paphiopedilum Agarwood (Dipterocarpus retusus) (Paphiopedilum wardii) (Aquilaria malaccensis) White-bellied heron Slender-billed vulture (Ardea insignis) (Gyps tenuirostris) Threats • Establishment of tea gardens Declared a An ecological Several Over 150 and coffee estates national park and hotspot with species of rare timber • Logging and development a tiger reserve one Important wren-babblers species2(i) Mt. Dapha bum EN projects under Project Bird Area (IBA)3 recorded CR • Poaching and illegal wildlife Tiger in 1983 Pallas’s fish eagle (Haliaeetus leucoryphus) Indian vulture trade Gyps indicus ( ) • Encroachment • Shifting cultivation

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Namdapha National Park

3.47% Buffer zone White-bellied heron habitat Tourist trail Place Mountain and Tiger Reserve Unregulated Gandhigram The Far Eastern extraction and trade Grassland Map of Namdapha National Park and Tiger Reserve2(ii) Himalaya Landscape The Hindu Kush of medicinal plants Himalayan region 15.92% Scrub forest ~137 Limited habitat Land-use species of connectivity for cross- and border movement of land cover wide ranging species 24% Open forest Lack of transboundary CR CR EN EN EN EN monitoring Namdapha flying Chinese pangolin Alpine musk deer Tiger Bengal slow loris Western hoolock gibbon (Biswamoyopterus biswasi) (Manis pentadactyla) (Moschus chrysogaster) (Panthera tigris) (Nycticebus bengalensis) (Hoolock hoolock)

The Landscape Initiative for the Far Eastern Himalaya (HI-LIFE) is a regional conservation and development initiative jointly implemented by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Source: (1) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | CR - Critically Endangered, EN - Endangered; (2) Government of Development (ICIMOD) and partners in China, India, and Myanmar in the Far-Eastern Himalaya Landscape. It promotes a transboundary landscape approach to achieve the twin objectives of Arunachal Pradesh, Department of Environment & Forests: (i) Namdapha Tiger Reserve Conservation Plan for the period from biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. 2013-14 to 2022-23., (ii) Buffer Zone map and Trail; (3) BirdLife International Design: Sudip Maharjan (ICIMOD), Map: Gauri Dangol (ICIMOD), Illustration: Peter Lepcha

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