Fauna of Tawang Arunachal Pradesh

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Arunachal Pradesh is situated between 26°28' N & 29°30' N latitudes and 91°30′ E & 97°30' E longitudes. It covers a geographical area of 83,743 sq. km. It is the largest state in the northeastern part of India among seven sisters. It is flanked by China in the north and northeast (1080 Km) separated by McMohan line, by Bhutan 9160 Km) in west, by and Myanmar (440 Km) in east, and in south by the India states of Assam and Nagaland. The present Tawang (2.172 Sq. km) district was a part of large Balipara Frontier Tract of Assam along with the present day West Kameng East Kameng Upper Subansiri, Lower Subansiri and Papum Pare districts Arunachal Pradesh.

Arunachal Pradesh, one of the world's most difficult mountainous regions, extremely precipitous measuring an area of about 83,500 sq.km, rises in mighty convulsions of ridges and spurs from the foothills across the north bank of the Brahmaputra, also known as Sri Lohit in ancient literature. India has 157 km. of border with Bhutan, cutting across almost north to south and forming the western extremity of Arunachal Pradesh. The heights gained by the mountain peaks as one follows Crestline from the extreme western end to the easternmost corner, shows a great variation, ranging from 6400 meters to 1829 meters. The main ridges and spurs of what has sometimes been described as 'the Sub-Himalayas' fan out to the plains mostly in transverse directions, i.c., in the north-south direction, rather than parallel to each other, except possibly in the present West Kameng and Tawang districts, where the prominent ridges run more or less parallel to each other, from west to east.

Arunachal Pradesh is ranked second among the states and Union Territories in terms of area under forest cover (Ministry of Environment & Forests, 2001). As per the Forest Survey of India (2003), the forest cover area is 68,019 sq.km.constituting 61.5% of the total geographical area of the State and 6.7% of the country's area. The State has broadly six types of forests, Tropical Wet Evergreen (Rain Forest), Subtropical Broadleaf, Subtropical Conifer, Temperate Broadleaf, Temperate Conifer and Sub-Alpine Forests/Alpine Scrub, Small Savanna Grassland patches occur along the major rivers.

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