Pakke Tiger Reserve

Pakke Tiger Reserve is located in the East Kameng District of Arunachal Pradesh with headquarters at Seijusa, 21 km from Saibari in Assam off National Highway- 52. The Tenga Reserve Forest surrounds it to the North, Doimara Reserve Forest on the West, Nameri National Park and Tiger Reserve (Assam) on the South, and some agricultural land as well as Papum Reserve Forest on the East. The Pakke River bounds the area of the Tiger Reserve on the east and the Kameng River on the west. The landscape has high species diversity and endemicity as it forms the transition zone between the Indian and Malayan ecoregions. The topography is rugged and mountainous, with constricted valleys and sloping plains. The Chittagong hills are thought to be the boundaries of both the Bengal tiger (P. t. tigris) and the Indo-Chinese tiger (P. t. corbetti). They are likely a mixing ground for the two subspecies (Kolipakam et al. 2019). Pakke Tiger Reserve's vegetation is predominantly tropical semi-evergreen (Champion & Seth, 1968). The reserve's vegetation is thick, with a wide variety of woody lianas and climbers (Datta, 1998). The habitat is often stratified, with tropical semi-evergreen forests on the lower plains, tropical evergreen forests in the middle elevations, and subtropical broadleaved forests on the higher levels (Datta, 1998).

Description

State : Arunachal Pradesh

District : East Kameng

Coordinates :27.0984° N, 92.8178° E

Area : 1198.45 Sq.km

TR Notification year : 1999-2000

Tiger Population : 03 (All India Tiger Esitmation, 2018)