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A study said, natural process of change in grassland type, hastened by human interference, is robbing the critically endangered Bengal florican of its hiding and mating spaces in western Assam’s Manas National Park and Tiger Reserve, the best of its last few habitats on earth
Bengal florican
Bengal florican (Houbaropsis bengalensis) is one of the four members of the bustard family found in India.
It inhabits the tall, wet grasslands unlike the other three that prefer the desert regions and the short grass plains.
Also called the Bengal bustard, is native to the Indian subcontinent, Cambodia, and Vietnam
In Indian Subcontinent mainly in India (Uttar Pradesh, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.) and terai region of Nepal.
It has a very small, rapidly declining population largely as a result of the widespread loss of its grassland habitat.
IUCN status: Critically Endangered.
Listed under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act of India, 1972
Appendix I of CITES
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