Cultural and Natural Heritage Sites around the world house a diverse range of wildlife who have formed mutually-dependent relationships with the sites’ residents and surrounding environment. Today, GHF features the Manas Wildlife Sanctuary in North-Eastern India’s State of Assam.
UNESCO World Heritage Centre identifies Manas as a biodiversity hotspot, as it provides critical and viablehabitats 22 of India’s most threatened species of mammal, such as the elephant, tiger, greater one-horned rhino, clouded leopard, sloth bear, pygmy hog, hispid hare, gloden langur and Bengal florican. Manas holds about 60 mammals species in total, in addition to 7 amphibians and 500 birds species, 26 of which are endangered. Additionally, the park represents the core of an extensive tiger reserve that protects an important migratory wildlife resource along the West Bengal to Arunachal Pradesh and Bhutan borders.
Read more about the site’s fascinating wildlife population at http://bit.ly/1ivqKyC