An elephant has been camera-trapped after 12 years, as the encroachment since 1996 blocked the jumbo migration route between Arunachal Pradesh and Myanmar through Namdapha National Park.
It is India’s easternmost tiger reserve and National park situated in the Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh.
It is originally declared as a Wildlife Sanctuary in 1972 and a National Park and Tiger Reserve (15th Tiger Project) in 1983.
The Namdapha protected area is wedged between Dapha Bum ridge of Mishmi Hills, of North Eastern Himalayas and Patkai Ranges.
The reserve has a common boundary with Kamlang Wildlife Sanctuary (Lohit District).
Vegetation - It consists of Northern Tropical Evergreen Forest, North Indian Tropical Moist Deciduous Forests, East Himalayan Moist Temperate Forests, Moist Alpine Scrub Forests.
River - It lies along the Noa-Dihing river lies in the tropical rain forest.
Flora - The Pinus merkusi and Abies delavavi are not found elsewhere in India.
One of the rarest and endangered orchids, the Blue Vanda found here.
The most famous local medicinal plant Mishimi Teeta (Copti teeta), is available here but its export has been banned.
It is only park in the World to have the 4 Feline species of big cat namely
The Tiger (Panthera Tigris),
Leopard (Panthera Pardus),
Snow Leopard (Panthera Uncia) and
Clouded Leopard (Neofelis Nebulosa) and numbers of Lesser cats.
Primate species - Assamese macaque, pig-tailed macaque, stump-tailed macaque and Hoolock Gibbons (Hylobates Hoolock), highly endangered and only ‘ape’ species found in India dwells here.
Birds - White winged Wood Ducks, a rare and endangered species, the great Indian hornbills, jungle fowls and pheasants.
