Location
The Itanagar Wildlife Sanctuary in Itanagar is one of the major tourist attractions in the city. Located in a sprawling zone the luxuriant Sanctuary is a biologists and tourists delight. The Sanctuary apart from the wide variety of trees and foliage also represents a perfect balance of the ecological system. The Sanctuary is home to a variety of species from the animal and bird kingdom such as the macaque (rhesus, pigtailed, stump tailed and Assamese) hoolock gibbon and Capped langur, slow loris. Rare species of antelopes the serow, goral and Mittan the wild gaur are also housed here. The Musk deer, Himalayan black bear, red panda and porcupines are worth a mention here. Also on display are around 400 species of birds.