Intanki National Park

About Intanki National Park

Intanki National Park (also spelled Ntangki in some official Nagaland Forest Department references) lies in the Peren district of Nagaland, about 37 km from Dimapur town, making it one of the more accessible protected areas in the state given Dimapur's air and rail connections to Guwahati, Kolkata, Bengaluru, and Delhi. Established in 1993, the park covers roughly 202 sq km of tropical and sub-tropical forest on Nagaland's border with Assam. The park's wildlife list punches well above its size: hoolock gibbon, golden langur, clouded leopard, Asian elephant, wild buffalo, tiger, and sloth bear have all been recorded, alongside wild dogs and a healthy population of palm civets and flying squirrels. Birdlife is similarly strong, headlined by the rare Blyth's tragopan, a striking high-value species for birders, alongside hornbills and the black stork. Reptiles include monitor lizard and python. Forest cover is dominated by commercially and ecologically significant species including mahogany, rattan, bamboo, and stands of Khasi pine and Caribbean pine, reflecting Intanki's transition-zone position between the Brahmaputra valley lowlands and Nagaland's hill forests. This mix of habitats is part of why the park supports both lowland species typical of Assam's parks and hill-forest species more associated with the wider Naga hills. Compared to Nagaland's better-known Hornbill Festival tourism circuit around Kohima, Intanki remains a genuinely under-visited wildlife destination, offering visitors a realistic chance to combine a Dimapur stopover with a forest excursion rather than requiring a dedicated multi-day wildlife trip. Its position on the Assam-Nagaland border also makes it ecologically important as a corridor linking lowland and hill-forest wildlife populations across the two states.