Namdapha National Park

The Namdapha National Park, located in Arunachal Pradesh, is the largest protected region of the Eastern Himalayan biodiversity hotspot. Area wise, Namdapha is the third largest national park in India. The region is famous for its extensive Dipterocarp forests. The park is an abode of a wide assortment of mammal species. Apart from large predators, there are wolves, dholes, mongoose, Asiatic black bears, red panda, gaur, sambar, takin and many more. Interestingly, there is a local tribe called Lisu within the periphery of the park. This protected area is India's only national park credited with providing a haven to all the three major types of cat—the Bengal tiger, snow leopard, clouded leopard. It is the only national park that is a preferred habitat of hoolock gibbons. According to botanists, it will take around 50 years to complete a research on its varied botanical diversity.