The Bumdeling Wildlife Sanctuary (also spelled Bumdelling or
Bomdeling
Bomdeling (also spelled Bumdeling or Bumdelling) is a settlement in the north of Bhutan. It is located in Trashiyangtse District
Trashiyangtse District ( dz, བཀྲ་ཤིས་གཡང་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག་, bkra shis g. ...
), which contains the former
Kulong Chu Wildlife Sanctuary
The Bumdeling Wildlife Sanctuary (also spelled Bumdelling or Bomdeling), which contains the former Kulong Chu Wildlife Sanctuary, covers in northeastern Bhutan at elevations between and . The sanctuary covers most of Trashiyangtse Distri ...
, covers in northeastern
Bhutan at elevations between and . The sanctuary covers most of
Trashiyangtse District
Trashiyangtse District ( dz, བཀྲ་ཤིས་གཡང་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག་, bkra shis g.yang rtse rdzong khag) is one of the twenty dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. It was created in 1992 when Trashiyangtse d ...
, including
Bumdeling Gewog
Bumdeling Gewog ( Dzongkha: བུམ་སྡེ་གླིང་) (sometimes spelt Bomdeling) is a gewog (village block) of Trashiyangtse District, Bhutan
Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdo ...
. The sanctuary was planned in 1995 and established in 1998. It contains diverse
flora,
fauna, and scenery including alpine lakes and the Bumdeling Valley. The sanctuary also contains several cultural and religious sites. In the park live 3,000 resident households.
The sanctuary is located in the basin of one of the largest rivers of Buthan and Kholong Chu, Drangme Chu.
The sanctuary has been identified as an
Important Bird Area
An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.
IBA was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife Int ...
by
BirdLife International
BirdLife International is a global partnership of non-governmental organizations that strives to conserve birds and their habitats. BirdLife International's priorities include preventing extinction of bird species, identifying and safeguarding ...
because it supports
black-necked cranes (it is one of the country's two wintering sites),
wood snipe
The wood snipe (''Gallinago nemoricola'') is a species of snipe which breeds in the Himalayas of northern India, Nepal, Bhutan and southern China. In winter, it occurs at lower altitudes in the Himalayas, as a regular visitor in small numbers to ...
s and
grey-crowned prinia
The grey-crowned prinia (''Prinia cinereocapilla'') is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae.
It is found in Bhutan, northern India and Nepal.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist shrub ...
s.
As of 2007, there was a record of the
white-tailed eagle, a first for the sanctuary. It is listed in Bhutan's Tentative List for UNESCO inclusion.
Ludlow's Bhutan Swallowtail, the only endemic butterfly in Bhutan and in the world, lives here.
See also
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List of protected areas of Bhutan
The protected areas of Bhutan are its national parks, nature preserves, and wildlife sanctuaries. Most of these protected areas were first set aside in the 1960s, originally covering most of the northern and southern regions of Bhutan. Today, prot ...
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Black-necked cranes in Bhutan
References
Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests
Wildlife sanctuaries of Bhutan
Protected areas established in 1998
Lhuntse District
Mongar District
Trashiyangtse District
Important Bird Areas of Bhutan
Ramsar sites in Bhutan
Protected areas of Bhutan
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