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Jigme Dorji National Park covers most of northern Gasa District, including the bulk of Lunana and Laya Gewogs. These gewogs are the site of some of the most notable and precarious glaciers of Bhutan. These glaciers have thawed significantly over the course of recorded history, causing lethal and destructive glacial lake outburst floods.
With over 4,316 km 2, the Jigme-Dorji National Park is the second largest protected area in Bhutan. [4] It is one of the most biodiverse areas of the eastern Himalayas and stretches from the deciduous forest to the eternal ice fields and glaciers on the north-western border of Bhutan. [5] Densely forested mountains of Jigme Dorji National Park
The Gelephu-Zhemgang road serves as the border between Royal Manas and Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Parks. [ 1 ] The Forest and Nature Conservation Act of Bhutan, 1995 is the primary legislation that provides a framework of protected areas for Bhutan.
Wangchuck Centennial directly abuts Jigme Dorji National Park, Bumdeling Wildlife Sanctuary, and Phrumsengla National Park in northern Bhutan, and is further connected to Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park in central Bhutan via biological corridors. Thus, most of northern Bhutan is part of these protected areas.
Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park is the most centrally located among the national parks of Bhutan.Covering over an area of 1730 km 2, it forms a contiguous belt linking Royal Manas National Park in the south to the temperate and alpine vegetation in the north.
Lunana Gewog is a gewog (village block) of Gasa District, Bhutan. [1] The village Lunana is the administrative center of Lunana Gewog.. The gewog lies almost entirely within protected areas, mostly in Jigme Dorji National Park, though eastern sections are part of Wangchuck Centennial Park.
The northern half of the district (the gewogs of Kazhi, Dangchu and Sephu) falls within Wangchuck Centennial Park, with northwestern pockets (the gewog of Kazhi) belonging to Jigme Dorji National Park. Southeastern Wangdue (the gewogs of Athang and Phobji) is part of Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park.
Jigme Dorji National Park; Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park; N. National parks of Bhutan; P. Phrumsengla National Park; R. Royal Manas National Park; W.