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Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary |
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Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary, roughly 124km east of Siliguri. The sanctuary was established in 1943 to help protect wildlife against the encroachment of tea cultivation. Consisting of tracts of tall elephant grass on the banks of the River Torsa, and set against the backdrop of forested foothills, it now shelters, around fifty highly endangered greater one-horned rhinoceroses, wild elephants, sambar and hog deer. Jaldapara is open from November to the end of April, with March being the best month to view animals, as they graze on new shoots. |
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