It is also connected via "biological corridors" to other national parks in northern, eastern, central, and southern Bhutan.
The government, for its part, perceived that free Nepali-language education had encouraged illegal immigration into southern Bhutan.
He was also accused of instigating the racial riots in southern Bhutan.
By early 1991, the press in Nepal was referring to insurgents in southern Bhutan as "freedom fighters."
Many of the demonstrators were Nepalese who had crossed into southern Bhutan from India.
Although much of southern Bhutan contained protected areas in the 1960s, park-level environmental protection became untenable.
It also plans to install a rail system in southern Bhutan.
The endangered wild water buffalo occurs in southern Bhutan, although in small numbers.
This resentment erupted in attacks on government offices, schools and officials across southern Bhutan in the summer of 1990, leading to a crackdown.
Jongkhar is a small town in southern Bhutan near the border with India.