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Which National Park in India is named after a River?

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National park is a place reserved for the conservation of animals and wild-life. These parks provide natural-habitat like conditions to animals where they live without any threat from human activities, as any kind of hunting of animals is banned here.

There are many national parks worldwide and the largest national park in the world is the “Northeast Greenland National” park. It was established in the year 1974.

National Parks in India

India has many national parks, which have been developed keeping in mind the interest of wild life. The purpose of these parks is to give protection and shelter to animals and preventing the extinction of rare species.

First national park in India was established in 1936 as “Hailey National Park”. It’s interesting to see its name changed multiple times.

Later it got famous by name “Jim Corbett National Park”.  Since 1936 a lot of new national parks have been established. One such national park is “Manas National Park” which  also got the title of “Unesco World Heritage Site”.

Manas National Park – Name on Manas River

One of the popular public park in India is “Manas Public Park”. It is situated at the foundation of Bhutan-Himalayas in Assam condition of north-east of India. It gives special biodiversity and a got place for the insurance of tigers.

Manas Public park reaches out over an area of around 2837 square kms and is named on the stream “Manas” which is one of the significant feeder of Brahmaputra waterway. Name of the Mansa waterway depends on the snake goddess “Manasa”.

Manas Wildlife as World Heritage Site

Manas wildflife sanctuary was engraved as World Heritage Site in December 1985 by UNESCO because of weighty fear based oppressor exercises.

But on 25 February 2008 the park was removed from the list of World heritage site in danger due to heavy poaching and terrorist activities.

The rich heritage of Manas national park has made it the first in the world where pristine Terai grasslands appear to be merging with Bhabar grasslands.

Famous Biomes in Manas National Park

There are two famous biomes found in Manas National Park:

  1. The grassland biome
    Example pygmy hog, Indian rhinoceros , Bengal florican, wild Asian buffalo, etc.
  2. The Forest biomes
    Example Black giant squirrel, Chinese pangolin, Malayan giant, Sambar, Great hornbill, Wild pig, Slow loris etc.

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