Dibru-Saikhowa National Park, which greets visitors with exotic and rare orchids in April, is being robbed of its colours by smugglers.
While poachers pose a constant danger to the fauna of this bio-diversity hotspot, which is located on the south bank of the Brahmaputra and straddles Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts of Assam, orchid smugglers are now putting its flora in peril too.
According to reports, several gangs entered the flood-ravaged park recently to collect the wild orchids, which start blooming in January, are in full blossom in April and cascade down the trees till June. The collectors take advantage of the inadequate security in the park as well as floods, which force the guards to desert the camps in the interiors.
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