Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary

Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary is also known as the Jeypore Rainforest. It is the only rainforest in Assam. It is located in the Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts of Assam. This Wildlife Sanctuary is spread over an area of 111.19 sq. km, and it belongs to Assam's wet tropical evergreen forest category.

The Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary is also a part of the Dehing Patkai Elephant Reserve. On 13th June 2004, Dehing Patkai has declared a wildlife sanctuary. And on 13th December 2020, the Government of Assam upgraded it into a national park, but the forest department of Assam officially notified it as a national park on 9th June 2021.

The Dehing Patkai rainforest also has two parts one part of it is the sanctuary, and the other part of it falls under another elephant reserve named Dibru - Deomali.

Here you can find an enormous variety of plants as the forest is also known as the Amazon of the east, stretches beyond Assam and into the Changlang and Tirop district of Arunachal Pradesh, and it is a four-layered rainforest. There is abundant ferns, wild banana, and many exotic species of orchids present here.

You can find at least 293 species of birds in this forest, and in Winters, this number increases as the migratory birds from Russia and elsewhere makes this place their home. Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary is rich in biodiversity and wildlife.

It is also home to 47 species of mammals, 47 species of reptiles, and 30 species of butterflies. This place is an ideal tourist destination and feels like heaven for birdwatchers, wildlife lovers, and nature lovers.