East Karbi Anglong Wildlife Sanctuary

East Karbi Anglong Wildlife Sanctuary lies 35 km from Diphu in Karbi Anglong district, Assam. The Assam government declared the forest a sanctuary on 27 July 2000. It covers 221.81 sq km at heights between 80 and 500 metres, and receives about 1,800 mm of rain a year, with average temperatures around 34 °C and a minimum of 6 °C.

The sanctuary shelters a wide range of mammals and reptiles, among them tiger, elephant, leopard, clouded leopard, bear, hoolock gibbon, Indian pangolin, leopard cat, pig-tailed macaque, porcupine, sambar and barking deer, along with king cobra, monitor lizard and python. Around 250 bird species have been recorded so far, including the great hornbill, lesser racket-tailed drongo and black-hooded oriole.