Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary

Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary is the only wildlife sanctuary in India to be named after a non-human primate, Hoolock gibbon (Hylobates hoolock). Hollock Gibbon, the only ape found in the Indian sub continent, require prime evergreen forest for survival. Formerly known as Hulungapar Reserve Forest,Gibon Wildlife Sanctuary was announced as a reserve forest in 1881 and in 1997 this forest was upgraded to Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary, by Assam Government.

Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary is located between 26.40 - 26.45 degree north latitude and 94.20-94.25 degree East longitude, near Mariani in Jorhat district, Assam, India.This sanctuary is approx. 12 km and 5 km far from Jorhat town and Mariani respectively. The total area of this sanctuary is 1915.6 hector.

The main attraction of Gibon Wildlife Sanctuary is because of different types of monkeys are found in the same platform.

The six types of monkeys found here are-
# Hoolock gibbon (Hylobates hoolock),
# Capped langur (Presbytis entellus),
# Slow loris (Nycticebus cocang),
# Stump-tailed macaque (macca speciosa),
# Pig-tailed macaque (macaca nemestrina)
# Rhesus monkeys.

Besides of these, this park also has elephants, leopard,wild pigs, sambar deer, hugori deer, pythons, giant squirrel and small palm squirrel etc. This Wildlife Sanctuary is very rich in different types of trees,plants and orchids. The most valuable trees like Hulung, sashi (Aqualaria agolacha), salakh (Terminelia myrocarpa), cham, tita chapa, kath badam (Mansonia dipikae), bhelkar, ban-bagari, dhuna (canarium resiniferum), bhelou, rudrakshya etc. are found here. Different types of bamboos like bajaal (pseudostachym polymorphum), dolou, kak, baakthui (bambusa pallida) and other plants like bogitora (alpinia molluccensis), tora,koupaat (phynium imbricatum), nol (arundo karka), paatidoi, megela (saccharum orundinaceum), geruka tamol (pinanga gracillis), dhepai tita etc are found here in very large amount.

The sanctuary has recently received attention from tourists who visit the region. Tourists can stay at the bungalow provided by the forest department. Aaranyak - a registered society working in the field of biodiversity conservation in North East Ind have started to work towards primate research and conservation.