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The Phawngpui National Park provides habitat for a range of birds including the rare Blyth's tragopan, falcon, sunbirds, dark-rumped swift, and Mrs. Hume's pheasant, which is the Mizoram state bird, and also rare animals like the mountain goat, slow loris, tiger, leopard, leopard cat, serow, goral, Asiatic black bear, stump-tailed macaque and capped langur. [6]
The area is encircled by matted bamboo groves and other alluring vegetations. There are varieties of butterflies, including some rare species found in this region.The Farpak area in Phawngpui is a huge grassland adjacent to a cliff area where one can sight birds like peregrine falcon, Blyth's tragopan, sunbirds, grey sibia, golden-throated barbet, [9] Mrs. Hume's pheasant, hornbill, dark ...
Rivers and lakes inside the national park Murlen National Park: Is close to the Chin Hills. It lies north of Lengteng Wildlife Sanctuary in the same district: Phawngpui Blue Mountain National Park: It bears the name of the mountain Phawngpui, often called the Blue Mountain of Mizoram, which is the highest mountain peak in the state, reaching ...
Phawngpui Tlang also known as the Blue Mountain, situated in the south-eastern part of the state, is the highest peak in Mizoram at 2,210 metres (7,250 feet). Hmuifang With an elevation of 1619 metres, the mountain is still covered with virgin forests reserved since the Mizo Chief's time. [3] Hmuifang is the way to Lunglei.
Murlen National Park: Champhai district: Mizoram: 100: Montane sub-tropical semi-evergreen forest [70] Orang National Park: Darrang and Sonitpur: Assam: 79: Eastern seasonal swamp forests, Eastern Himalayan moist mixed deciduous forests, eastern wet alluvial grasslands [71] Phawngpui National Park: Lawngtlai district: Mizoram: 50: Temperate ...
Dampa Tiger Reserve or Dampha Tiger Reserve is a tiger reserve of western Mizoram, India.It covers an area of about 500 km 2 (190 sq mi) in the Lushai Hills at an altitude range of 800–1,100 m (2,600–3,600 ft).
Siaha district is one of the eleven districts of Mizoram state in India.The district is bounded on the northwest by Lunglei district, on the north and west by Lawngtlai District and on the south and east by Myanmar.
The first national park was Khao Yai in 1961, when the National Park Act B.E. 2504 was passed. The first marine park was Khao Sam Roi Yot, established in 1966. In 1993 the administration of the national parks was split into two divisions, one for the terrestrial and one for the Marine National Park Division (MNPD). [3]