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A man working in a jute field on a river island was killed by a wild buffalo near the Laokhowa-Burachapori sanctuary complex in Assam's Nagaon district.
Bura Chapori Wildlife Sanctuary covers 44.06 sq km on the south bank of the Brahmaputra in Sonitpur district and forms one half of the Laokhowa-Burachapori ecosystem with the roughly 70 sq km Laokhowa sanctuary.
The complex sits between Kaziranga National Park to the east and Orang National Park to the west, forming a corridor of wet alluvial grassland along the Brahmaputra.
The Asian wild buffalo, Bubalus arnee, is Endangered on the IUCN Red List and carries Schedule I protection under the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972.
In India the species survives largely in and around Kaziranga, Manas, Dibru-Saikhowa, Laokhowa and Bura Chapori, with scattered pockets elsewhere in Assam.
Provides for the declaration of national parks and wildlife sanctuaries and lists species by schedule. The wild buffalo and the Bengal Florican are Schedule I species, the category carrying the strongest penalties. The 2022 amendment restructured the schedules and aligned the Act with CITES obligations.
The international and domestic framework under which grassland-wetland mosaics like the Laokhowa-Burachapori ecosystem are managed for in-situ conservation of species and habitats.
The Laokhowa-Burachapori complex lies on the south bank of the Brahmaputra in central Assam, between Kaziranga National Park downstream to the east and Orang National Park upstream to the west, with Nagaon district on its southern side. The chaporis — shifting river islands of sand and grass — are where cultivation and wildlife habitat overlap most directly, and where conflict incidents such as this one occur.
GS Paper 3 > Conservation, biodiversity, protected areas and human-wildlife conflict. GS Paper 1 > Physical geography of India: river systems
General Awareness > National parks, wildlife sanctuaries and protected species
In which state is the Kaziranga National Park located?
Answer: Assam
An Assamese term for the riverine sandbars and islands of the Brahmaputra, rebuilt by each monsoon and used both as wildlife habitat and for cultivation — the reason Bura Chapori carries the name.
Endangered on the IUCN Red List and a Schedule I species under the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972. In India it survives mainly in and around Kaziranga, Manas, Dibru-Saikhowa, Laokhowa and Bura Chapori.
A grassland bustard of the Brahmaputra and terai floodplains, among the world's most threatened birds and dependent on exactly the wet alluvial grassland that these sanctuaries protect.