About Bura Chapori Wildlife Sanctuary:
- It is located on the southern bank of the river Brahmaputra in the Sonitpur district, Assam.
- It is located on the north side of Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary and shares an integral transboundary landscape of the Laokhowa-Burachapori Wildlife Sanctuary ecosystem.
- It sanctuary was notified as a buffer zone of the Kaziranga Tiger Reserve in 2007.
- Most of the low-lying areas of the sanctuary are vulnerable to flooding during summer.
- Flora:
- It is enveloped and adorned by wet alluvial grasslands, riparian, and semi-evergreen forests.
- Most of the plant species found here are of great commercial and medicinal value.
- Fauna:
- It is a habitat of a wide range of wild animals, including tigers, elephants, wild buffalos, one-horned rhinoceros, hog deer, and wild boar.
- The avian inhabitants feature species like the Bengal florican, black-necked stork, open-billed stork, white-eyed pochard, mallard, spotbill, large whistling teal, and numerous others.
