Alipurduar Buxa Tiger Reserve Bhutan Forest Corridor

Alipurduar district in the Dooars, bordering Bhutan, contains the Buxa Tiger Reserve — a 760 sq km forest corridor that historically was the British-built pathway for the Tibet trade (the Buxa Fort was a political prison during the independence struggle) and now serves as a critical wildlife corridor for tiger, elephant, gaur, and Bhutan-India species movement. The district's Phibsoo Wildlife Sanctuary in Bhutan across the border is contiguous with Buxa, creating an international trans-boundary conservation landscape. Alipurduar's tea gardens blend with forest blocks, and the district's community forest management programme (JFM) involves tea garden and village communities in forest protection and NTFP access.