The Eastern Himalayas extend from eastern Nepal through northeastern India, Bhutan, Tibet and Yunnan in China into northern Myanmar, and rank among the world's most significant biodiversity hotspots, carrying substantial biocultural diversity alongside their ecological richness. The region is home to more than 10,000 plant species, some 240 mammal species and roughly 750 bird species, including snow leopards, Indian rhinoceroses and Asian elephants, sustained by a monsoon climate that brings hot, wet conditions to the lowlands from June through September and average annual rainfall of about 10,000 millimeters in places, making the Eastern Himalayas markedly wetter than the Western Himalayas. Its dramatic elevation gradient, from steaming lowland valleys to high alpine terrain, has driven the evolution of a wide range of distinct habitats within a comparatively small area, and the region remains a major focus of global efforts to conserve mountain biodiversity.
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Source Camellia sinensis (Wikipedia)
Source Goldcrest (Wikipedia)
Source Wikipedia: Marbled cat
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1. Eastern Himalaya Biodiversity Hotspot (WorldAtlas)
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The Eastern Himalayas cover a total area of 524,190 sq.km, and extends from Central Nepal's Koshi Valley to northwest Yunnan in China, including southeast Tibet, Bhutan , parts of India (Sikkim Darjeeling Hills of West Bengal, northeast India), and northern Myanmar .
Eastern Himalayas (Wikipedia)
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The Eastern Himalayas extend from eastern Nepal across Northeast India, Bhutan, the Tibet Autonomous Region to Yunnan in China and northern Myanmar.
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Asian black bear, Himalayan vulture, and pikas are common at higher elevations, and also on the Tibetan plateau.
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WikipediaHosts: Marbled Cat, Wikipedia intro: "The marbled cat (Pardofelis marmorata) is a small wild cat native from the eastern Himalayas to Southeast Asia, where it inhabits forests up to an elevation of..."View the Source Red-vented bulbul - Wikipedia
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Found in the central and eastern Himalayas from Nepal to Assam, north-eastern India and Bangladesh P. c. stanfordi - Deignan, 1949: Found in northern Burma and south-western China P. c. melanchimus - Deignan, 1949: Found in south-central Burma and northern Thailand P. c. wetmorei - Deignan, 1960: Found in eastern India P. c. saturatus - (Whistler & Kinnear, 1932): Originally de
Caecilian (Wikipedia)
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Caecilians in the Eastern Himalayas are colloquially known as "back ache snakes", while in the Western Ghats, Ichthyophis tricolor is considered to be more toxic than a king cobra.
Goldcrest (Wikipedia)
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Breeds in the Eastern Himalayas, Burma and China; it is like R. r. sikkimensis, but darker overall with dark green upper-parts and darker buff underparts.
Camellia sinensis (Wikipedia)
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Camellia sinensis is mainly cultivated in tropical and subtropical climates, in areas with at least 127 cm (50 in) of rainfall a year.
Abies densa (Wikipedia)
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Also called the Himalayan alpine fir, Abies densa is a dominant conifer in the upper coniferous belt of the central and eastern Himalayas from Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and adjacent Tibet to Burma (Myanmar) in altitudes between 2800 and 3700 m.
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