Nazrul Islam

Gauhati University | G.U. · Department of Zoology

The Natural World Heritage Sites (WHS) are recognized for their global significance in biodiversity conservation. With such an intention, the eastern part of Manas Reserved Forest was upgraded to the First Addition to Manas National Park (NP) in August 2016 on the west of the existing Manas WHS and NP in Assam, India. This study was conducted to as...

The leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) is one of the most widely distributed small cat species in the world. For the current study, 15 leopard cat kittens were hand raised between 2015 and 2021, and the challenges faced in rehabilitating the species were evaluated. During the hand-raising phase, 73% (11/15) of the leopard cat kittens sur...

Protected Area plays a very important role for conservation of wildlife in a highly populated country like India. Coexistence of 1.4billion people with many mega herbivores and carnivores is a good example of India's rich culture and tradition for conservation. Manas is one of the most unique landscape in the eastern Himalayas and very rich in biod...

Birds play very essential ecological functions such as pest control, pollination, seed dispersal as well as nutrient dynamics and they are very good indicators of the ecosystem health in a landscape. Biodiversity inventory and their conservation including ecosystem restoration at landscape level has recently emerged as a global priority for effecti...

This study presents a checklist of the flowering plants of the Raimona National Park which was popularly known as Ripu Reserve Forest. A survey was conducted during October of 2019 to August of 2021. The plant specimens were collected in flowering or in fruiting stage. A total of 479 taxa belonging to 347 genera and 113 families of flowering plants...

Two species of Strobilanthes Blume (Acanthaceae), S. anisophylla (Wall. ex Hook.) T. Anderson and S. sabiniana (Wall. ex Lindl.) Nees are added as a new distribution records for Assam from Manas Biosphere Reserve. Detailed description, taxonomic notes, geographical distribution map and habitat are provided, accompanied by photographic images to fac...

Butterflies occupy a vital position in ecosystems and thus an important model group to study for wildlife conservation in a landscape. A baseline survey on abundance and diversity of butterflies was conducted in the newly created Raimona National Park of Assam in India. The Pollard Walk method was followed in the modified line transects of 1000 m l...

A healthy population of the threatened Eastern Swamp Deer (Rucervus duvaucelii ranjitsinhi) in Manas National Park was almost exterminated due to politico-ethnic disturbances in the late 1980s that culminated with the formation of Bodoland Territorial Council in 2003. The Swamp Deer population in Manas began to revive with augmentation starting in...

The Ripu Reserve Forest of Assam was one of the best managed forest in India. Deforestation and encroachment were the major threats to the sustainability of this natural landscape. To arrest this trend of suicidal destruction, a large part (422 km 2) of Ripu RF was legally notified as "Raimona National Park" for long term conservation of its wildli...