Rowa Wildlife Sanctuary
Rowa Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary in the North Tripura district of the Indian state of Tripura. It is near the urban center of Panisagar and has significant anthropogenic pressure with risk of fragmentation. Even though precipitation is fairly high, the area still falls under fire risk, and has been categorized to be highly fire prone.
Description
The sanctuary covers and area of 0.858 km (0.331 sq mi) and was declared a protected area in 1988.
Flora and fauna
Rowa Wildlife Sanctuary has deciduous forest, semi-evergreen forest and mixed moist deciduous secondary forests with patches of bamboo brakes. The flora is dominated by Microcos paniculata, Senna siamea and Macaranga denticulata.
Major wildlife include barking deer, wild boar, pig-tailed macaque, crab-eating mongoose, Indian porcupine, Indian rock python, and birds such as barbets, bulbuls, cuckoos, darters, pigeons, drongos, ducks, Old World orioles, owls, parakeets, partridges, sunbirds, woodpeckers, weaverbirds, treepies and jungle mynas.
References
- ^ "Protected area network in India" (PDF). Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. p. 28. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
- ^ Ranglong, A.; Dutta Roy, A.; Das, S.; Deb, S. (2025). "Estimating aboveground biomass and biodiversity of a protected area in moist tropical forest ecosystem using remote sensing application". Journal for Nature Conservation. 84: 126823. doi:10.1016/j.jnc.2024.126823.
- ^ FSI (2019). "State of Forest Report 2019".
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Tripura". Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
- ^ National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries in India (PDF) (Report). Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India. 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2024.