Biodiversity of Assam
The biodiversity of Assam, a state in North-East India, makes it a biological hotspot with many rare and endemic plant and animal species. The greatest success in recent years has been the conservation of the Indian rhinoceros at the Kaziranga National Park, but a rapid increase in human population in Assam threatens many plants and animals and their habitats.
The rhinoceros, tiger, deer or chital / futukihorina, swamp deer or dolhorina, clouded leopard, hoolock gibbon, pygmy hog or nol-gahori, hispid hare, golden langur, golden cat, giant civet, binturong, hog badger, porcupine, and civet are found in Assam. Moreover, there are abundant numbers of Gangetic dolphins, mongooses, giant squirrels and pythons. The largest population of wild water buffalo is in Assam.
The major birds in Assam include the blue-throated barbet or hetuluka, white-winged wood duck or deuhnah, Pallas's fish eagle or kuruwa, great pied hornbill or rajdhonesh, Himalayan golden-backed three-toed wood-pecker or barhoituka, and migratory pelican.