POBITORA WILDLIFE SANCTUARY
Topic: Conservation
WHY IN THE NEWS?
- Pobitora is running a successful Rhino breeding program within its sanctuary.
- It is running under the government as “Indian Rhino Vision 2020”.
ABOUT
- Pobitora WLS is located on the southern bank of the Brahmaputra in Morigaon district in Assam.
- It was declared in 1987 and covers 38.85 sq km (1500 sq. mi), providing grassland and wetland habital for the Indian Rhinoceros.
- It provides a habital and food resource for the Indian Rhionoceros, hosting Assam’s second-largest population.
- Other mammals occuring in the sanctuary are golden Jackal, wild boar and feral water buffalo.
- Barking deer, Indian leopard and rhesus macaque live foremost in the hilly parts.
- It is an important Bird Area and home for more than 2000 migratory birds and various reptiles.
