Fakim Wildlife Sanctuary

Fakim Wildlife Sanctuary covers 642 hectares close to the India-Myanmar border, in the Pungro circle of Kiphire district, Nagaland. Established in 1983 and run by the state's forest department, it rises from 1,700 to 3,000 metres within the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot. Its hills, high ridges, meadows, gorges and narrow valleys carry wet temperate to sub-alpine primary forest of oak, Khasi pine, hollock and bamboo.

Slender loris, hoolock gibbons, Himalayan bears and barking deer live here, and the state bird, Blyth's tragopan, is estimated to be more numerous than anywhere else in Nagaland. Great hornbills and, rarely, Mrs Hume's pheasant are also recorded. Vongtsuwong, a village of about 20 households at around 2,000 metres, is a popular way in, and Fakim village, on the hill below, is described as the gateway. The nearest airport is at Dimapur, about 320 km by road from Pungro.