Dibrugarh: Nature’s Beckon Group, environmental activist group, has appealed to the state government to change the forests of Pancharakna and Ajagar in the destination district of Assam to Wildlife Succuaries to protect rich wildlife and animal habitat.
The group has studied wildlife of Ajagar forest and Pancharatna forest for the past 10 years.
Nature’s Beckon has submitted a formal proposal to the Head of Minister of Himanta Buswa Sarma in this matter.
While Pancharatna Forest is around 976.08 hectares, Ajagar has an estimated area of 4,24 hectares of forest.
Most of the Ajagar and Pancharatera forest is home to wild elephants in Assam.
Apart from wild Asian elephants, countless other mammals were found in these two forests such as leopards, slow Loris, deer pigs, deer barks, sambhar, bear sloth, binturong, pangolin india, mongoose crab, etc.
These two forests occur, be the ideal habitat for various kinds of wild birds.
Director of Beckon Soumyadeep Datta said that the ongoing field investigation carried out by the Group has registered 168 wild bird species in Pancharatna forests and 196 species in Ajagar forest so far.
The field investigation team has also registered a total of 36 species of mammals in Ajagar forest and Pancharatna to date.
“Extraordinary forest scape from the destination is home to countless mammalian species and wild birds.
Ironically, although it is a rich natural habitat for a large number of wildlife, there is no initiative taken for its protection.
Ajagar and Pancharatna forests are still ports of diversity Hayati who is rich from rare and fauna flora.
The direct protection of these forests in the form of wildlife asylum is very important, “said Datta.
According to Datta, Kripa Lochan Das, an environmental lover that works with Nature’s Beckon, has studied the behavior, habitat and movement of Asian elephants in the goal area for more than 10 years.
This study has revealed the rare facts that Pancharatna is a “natural birth forest” for wild Asian elephants in Assam, I.e, wild elephants choose this forest to give birth to their children.
Elephants are known to give birth to their children in certain forests, chosen according to their traditions because elephants do not give birth in any forest.
“From an elephant conservation perspective, this Pancharatna forest is very significant,” said the watershed.
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