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Royal Manas National ParkTigers
Located in the south central part of Bhutan, Royal Manas National Park has an area of 1023 sq km. RMNP is the oldest protected area system in Bhutan, established as early as 1966 and upgraded as national park in 1993. With 92% of the park still forested, it represents one of the best examples of an intact Eastern Himalayan ecosystem.
The park covers three dzongkhags of Zhemgang, Sarpang and Samdrupjongkhar with about 5000 local residents living in the park. It is strategically located with Jigme Singye Wangchuk National Park in the north and India's Manas Wildlife Reserve, a UNESCO world heritage site in the south and thus form an integral part of the protected areas complex. The park is also connected by biological corridors to Thrumshingla National Park in the North, Phibsoo Wildlife Sanctuary in the West, and Khaling Wildlife Sanctuary in the East. Thus, it forms a very important part of the Bhutan Biological Conservation Complex landscape. It covers a vast diversity of tropical grasslands, temperate moist forests, alpine meadows, and scrublands. Elephants
The park includes a range of habitats from lowland tropical systems to the permanent ice fields harboring a diversity of flora and fauna.Besides, serving as the southern most subtropical Himalayan habitat for various species of flora and fauna, it is also the extended habitat for the endangered mega-herbivores with the like Rhinoceros, gaur, wild buffalo and elephant. Cats like Bengal tiger, leopard, clouded leopard, marble cat also roam in this park. Others such as wild boars, wild dog, barking deer, pygmy hog, hornbill and peacock are not a surprise. The bird species is extremely rich with a record of over 362 species
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