Nagarjunsagar Wildlife Sanctuary :India February 15, 2006
Nagarjuna Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in Andhra Pradesh.The terrain is rugged and winding gorges slice through the Mallamalai hills. Adjoining the reserve is the large reservoir of the Nagarjunasagar Dam on the River Krishna. The dry deciduous forests with scrub and bamboo thickets provide shelter to a range of animals like langur, bonnet macaque, tiger, leopard, jungle cat, wild dog, wolf, jackal, Bengal fox, sloth bear, smooth-coated otter, palm civet, striped hyena, wild boar, Indian spotted chevrotain, Indian muntjac, sambar, spotted deer, nilgai, four-horned antelope, blackbuck, chinkara, Indian pangolin, giant flying squirrel, Indian porcupine and Indian tree shrew. The avifauna is represented by nearly 150 species, including the grey hornbill and of course the peafowl. Reptiles include Indian soft-shelled turtle, monitor lizard, Indian python, and marsh crocodile.
The town of Nagarjuna Sagar is located150 km away from Hyderabad and is located between the cities of Guntur and Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh. It is one of the major Buddhist sites of India. Here, there is a famous dam, which is one of the largest dams built in Asia. It is one of the earliest hydro-electric projects of India. Definitely, a must visit travel site.
The dry Deciduous forests with scrub and bamboo thickets provide shelter to a range of animals from the tiger and leopard at the top of the food chain, to deer, sloth bear, hyena, jungle cat, palm civet, bonnet macaque and pangolin.
Nestling in the Nallamalai Hill ranges, an offshoot of the Eastern Ghats, with cliffs, gorges, ridges and plateaus, endowed with a variety of flora and fauna, the NSTR protects a large portion of the once flourishing ecological system that existed here. Without having the benefit of being an erstwhile royal game preserve, the forest in this area was always open to human visitation. Pilgrims from all over southern India carved out routes through the forest to reach Srisailam. It was in 1973 that the area was declared a sanctuary and incorporated under Project Tiger a decade later.
The sanctuary has thick forest cover of the Tropical Dry Deciduous Forest. There are plain vegetation of herbs, some shrubs, few trees and marshes with sedges. The scrub jungle and climbers are found at the foothills. There are thorn forests on the well-drained hill slopes. The hilltops have the dry deciduous forest. Niebuhria apetala, Ziziphus xylopyrus, Cissus vitiginea and Pterolobium indicum are some of the rare plants of the region.
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- Author : seo4india
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