#Keibul_Lamjao_National_Park
#National_Park_series
▪️Keibul Lamjao National Park
✅The Keibul Lamjao National Park is a national park in the state of Manipur .
✅ it is declared sanctuary in 1966
✅ National park in 1977
✅It is the only floating park in the world.
✅ It is an integral part of Loktak Lake.
✅The national park is characterized by many floating decomposed plant materials locally called phumdis.
✅To preserve the natural refuge of the endangered Manipur Eld’s deer or brow-antlered deer (Cervus eldi eldi), or sangai also called the dancing deer, listed as an endangered species by IUCN.
✅The park is a swamp with floating mass of vegetation created by accrual of organic garbage and biomass with soil particles that has been thickened into a solid form called phumdis, at the south–eastern side of the Loktak Lake, which has been declared a Ramsar site.
✅The distinctive nature of the park is that it is “too deep to be marsh, too shallow to be a lake”.
#Rajiv_Gandhi_National_Park
#National_Park_series
▪️Rajiv Gandhi ( Orang ) National Park
✅The Orang National Park is located on the north bank of the Brahmaputra River in the Darrang and Sonitpur districts of Assam and covers an area of 78.81 square kilometers.
✅It was established as a wildlife sanctuary in 1985 but was declared as National Park in 1999.
✅It is also 49th Tiger Reserve of the country, being notified in 2016.
✅It is also known as the mini Kaziranga National Park (IUCN site) since the two parks have a similar landscape made up of marshes, streams, and grasslands.
