Keibul Lamjao National Park

#Keibul_Lamjao_National_Park

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✅The Keibul Lamjao National Park is a national park in the state of Manipur .

✅ it is declared sanctuary in 1966

✅ National park in 1977

✅It is the only floating park in the world.

✅ It is an integral part of Loktak Lake.

✅The national park is characterized by many floating decomposed plant materials locally called phumdis. 

✅To preserve the natural refuge of the endangered Manipur Eld’s deer or brow-antlered deer (Cervus eldi eldi), or sangai also called the dancing deer, listed as an endangered species by IUCN.

✅The park is a swamp with floating mass of vegetation created by accrual of organic garbage and biomass with soil particles that has been thickened into a solid form called phumdis, at the south–eastern side of the Loktak Lake, which has been declared a Ramsar site. 

✅The distinctive nature of the park is that it is “too deep to be marsh, too shallow to be a lake”.