Buxa National Park, in the subdivision of Alipurduar, Jalpaiguri district, was set up in the year of 1982-83 at the north eastern corner of West Bengal bordering Bhutan and Assam. It was declared as a National Park in January 1992. The name Buxa Tiger has been derived from Buxa Fort. With an area of 759sq km this picturesque reserve with its prodigious Terai — Bhabar, as well as Hilly landscape is crisscrossed by numerous rivers and their tributaries present a breathtaking landscape.

The Phipsu Wildlife Sanctuary of Bhutan is contiguous to North of Buxa Tiger Reserve. Manas Tiger Reserve lies on east of Buxa Tiger Resave. Buxa Tiger Reserve, thus, serves as an international corridor for elephant migration between India and Bhutan. The reserve encompasses as many as eight forest types.

Buxa is rich in biodiversity and has a great collection of rare orchids and medicinal plants. Owing to inaccessible terrain, some parts of Buxa hills in the Sinchula range are still unexplored