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Arunachal puts off survey of road through tiger reserve
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- The Arunachal Pradesh government decided to “keep in abeyance” the survey work for a road through the Pakke Tiger Reserve (PTR).
- A 40-km stretch of the East-West Industrial Corridor road proposed to connect Seijosa in Pakke Kessang district and Bhalukpong in West Kameng district of the State passes through PTR, a biodiversity hotspot of the eastern Himalayas.
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- About Pakke Tiger Reserve:
(1) Pakke Tiger Reserve, also known as Pakhui Tiger Reserve, is a Project Tiger reserve in the Pakke Kessang district of Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India.
(2) This Tiger Reserve has won India Biodiversity Award 2016 in the category of 'Conservation of threatened species' for its Hornbill Nest Adoption Programme.
(3) It is bounded by Bhareli or Kameng River in the west and north, and by Pakke River in the east.
(4) To the east lies Papum Reserve Forest.
(5) Towards the south and south-east, the sanctuary adjoins reserve forests and Assam's Nameri National Park.
(6) To the west, it is bounded by Doimara Reserve Forest and Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary.
(7) The main perennial streams in the area are the Nameri, Khari and Upper Dikorai. West of Kameng River are Sessa Orchid Sanctuary and Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary.
(8) The habitat types are lowland semi-evergreen, evergreen forest and Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests.
(9) Notable mammals in the Tiger Reserve are: tiger, leopard, clouded leopard, Malayan giant squirrel, flying squirrel, squirrel, capped langur, rhesus macaque, Assamese macaque, gaur.
Sources
The Hindu