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Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary in Bhutan, located in Merak and Sakteng Gewogs of
The sanctuary represents the easternmost temperate ecosystems and landscapes of Bhutan, and is part of the Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests ecoregion. It protects several endemic species including the eastern blue pine, ''Meconopsis merakensis var. merakensis'', the black-rumped magpie, and the endangered Himalayan red panda, ''A. f. fulgens.''
Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary was created in part to protect the ''migoi'', a yeti-like
India proposes to build road in Bhutan’s ‘Yeti territory’ which China claimed recently
Economic Times, 15 Jul 2020.
Trashigang District
Trashigang District (Dzongkha: བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Bkra-shis-sgang rdzong-khag''; also spelled "Tashigang") is Bhutan's easternmost dzongkhag (district).
Culture
The population of the district ...
and just crossing the border into Samdrup Jongkhar District. It is one of the country's protected areas and is listed as a tentative site in Bhutan's Tentative List for UNESCO inclusion.
The sanctuary has three ranges: Merak Range, Sakteng Range, and Joenkhar Range. Sakteng Range is the largest range with an area of 333.67 sq.km, followed by Merak Range (287.352 sq.km) and Joenkhar Range (121.442 sq.km).
Flora and fauna
The sanctuary represents the easternmost temperate ecosystems and landscapes of Bhutan, and is part of the Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests ecoregion. It protects several endemic species including the eastern blue pine, ''Meconopsis merakensis var. merakensis'', the black-rumped magpie, and the endangered Himalayan red panda, ''A. f. fulgens.''
Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary was created in part to protect the ''migoi'', a yeti-like cryptid
Cryptids are animals that cryptozoologists believe may exist somewhere in the wild, but are not believed to exist by mainstream science. Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience, which primarily looks at anecdotal stories, and other claims rejected by ...
whose existence has not been scientifically confirmed, but in which the local population strongly believes. The ''migoi'' are believed to haunt the northern part of the area.
Territorial dispute
According to Tenzing Lamsang, editor of The Bhutanese, in all official Chinese maps, the sanctuary is shown to be Chinese territory. The area including Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary made news in June 2020 when the Chinese government reaffirmed that it is a territory disputed between China and Bhutan. Bhutan rejected the assertion, and denied that China had ever laid claim to the area in the past. In July 2020, the Indian Border Roads Organisation was tasked with building new strategic roads to connect eastern Bhutan to western Tawang area such as Lumla-Trashigang
Trashigang ( dz, བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་།), or Tashigang, meaning "fortress of auspicious mount," is a town in eastern Bhutan and the district capital of the Trashigang Dzongkhag (district).
The town lies to the east side of th ...
road through Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary.Economic Times, 15 Jul 2020.
See also
* List of protected areas of BhutanReferences
Protected areas established in 2003 Wildlife sanctuaries of Bhutan Protected areas of Bhutan Trashigang District Samdrup Jongkhar District {{Asia-protected-area-stub