Ranaganathittu Wildlife Sanctuary :India February 17, 2006
Situated on the banks of the Kaveri, Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary is located near Mysore in Karnataka. The six isles on the river are also part of the sanctuary. The sanctuary was declared a bird sanctuary in 1940, when the noted ornithologist Dr Salim Ali while surveying the birds of the area put emphasis on declaring Ranganathittu a bird sanctuary. Since then, the sanctuary has become a paradise for bird watchers.
Ranganathittu is the home for an astonishing variety of exotic birds from as far away as Siberia, Australia, North America, Middle East, Egypt, China, Africa, Europe and many other places. …
Pench Wildlife Sanctuary :India
The Pench Wildlife Sanctuary was named after the river Pench that flows nearby. The place was declared as a notified area in 1972 and as the Wildlife Sanctuary in 1983. The park is the 19th Tiger Reserve in the country and has quite a few tigers and other wildlife population. The total of 758 km of area comes under the Pench Tiger Reserve, out of which 299 sq km of the core area forms the National Park and 464 km comprises the buffer area.
The region of Pench experiences the Tropical Climate with hot summers and cold winters. Pench receives monsoon …
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 …
Nagarhole Wildlife Sanctuary :India
Nagarhole Wildlife Sanctuary derives its name from the combination of two Kannada words. ‘Nagar,’ meaning snake, and ‘hole,’ meaning streams. True to its name, quite a few serpentine streams fork through the rich tropical forests of the park. Nagarhole Wildlife Sanctuary was set up in 1955. In 1975, its area was increased to include a greater expanse of forest reserve. The original forest was once an exclusive hunting ground for the erstwhile Maharajas of Mysore. The park has been recently renamed as Rajiv Gandhi National Park after the late Prime Minister of India.
The Nagarhole Wildlife Sanctuary is home to …
Manas Wildlife Sanctuary :India
The Manas Wildlife Sanctuary, a Project Tiger reserve, lies among the foothills of the Bhutan Himalayas, in the far eastern state of Assam. The park, which spreads over 2,837 sq km, is a vast, relatively unspoilt expanse of low-lying sal forests and grasslands. The core area of the reserve lies in Kokrajhar and Barpeta districts, whereas its outlying areas spread over the neighbouring forest reserve divisions of North Kamrup, Western Assam Wildlife Division, Kachugaon and Haltugaon. To the north lies the Royal Manas National Park, in Bhutan.
Manas National Park is 176km from Guwahati, which is the nearest major airport. The …
Kaziranga Wildlife Sanctuary :India
Kaziranga Wildlife Sanctuary, situated in the northeastern state of Assam, is one of the most picturesque wildlife parks in India. The natural habitat of the one-horned rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis), Kaziranga lies on the southern banks of the Brahmaputra River, northeast of Assam’s capital Guwahati. Originally established as a game reserve in 1908, which included specific portions of Assam’s Sibsagar district, Kaziranga was declared a sanctuary in 1940 to counter excessive poaching. In 1974, the Indian Government declared it as a protected site. The Kaziranga Wildlife Sanctuary ’s original inhabitants-the rhino and the elephant being the most noticeable-now thrive in a …
Karera Wildlife Sanctuary :India
Karera Bird Sanctuary is located in Madhya Pradesh and is about 55 kilometres from Shivpuri. was once the summer capital of the Scindia rulers of Gwalior. Karera Bird Sanctuary is a bird watcher’s delight. The sanctuary is famous for its celebrity inhabitant Indian bustard and is believed to be last refuge of this bird. The studies conducted on the Indian bustard here have revealed that there are three type of bustards found in the sanctuary. The three types of bustards you may come across are Indian bustard, bearded bustard and colored bustard.
The thorny open country of the Karera …
Kanha Wildlife Sanctuary :India
The Kanha Wildlife Sanctuary was created in 1955 by a special law and, since then, it has dedicated itself in preserving a variety of animal species. Many endangered species have indeed been saved here. Today Kanha Wildlife Sanctuary is among the few most scenic and beautiful wildlife reserves in Asia. This ‘Tiger Country’ is the ideal home for both predator and prey.
The main wildlife attractions in the Kanha Wildlife Sanctuary are tiger, bison, gaur, sambhar, chital, barasingha, barking deer, black deer, black buck, chousingha, nilgai, mouse deer, sloth bear, jackal fox, porcupine, hyena, jungle cat, python, pea fowl, hare, …
Hazaribagh Wildlife Sanctuary :India
Hazaribagh Wildlife Sanctuary is a national park in Jharkhand, India, established in 1955. It has an area of 184 km² and is home to leopards, tigers and sloths among many other animals.
Set within the hilly terrain, interspersed with grassy meadows and waterways, the Reserve is a part of the Project Tiger. Tourists can view Tigers, Panthers, Sambars, Spotted Deer, Gaurs and a number of other mammalian fauna from the park’s ten watchtowers, strategically camouflaged among lush greenery. The sanctuary is surrounded by tribal habitations.
Hazaribagh experiences Tropical Climate with hot summers and cold winters. The maximum temperature during the summer months …
Eravikulam Wildlife Sanctuary :India
The Eravikulam Wildlife Sanctuary is world famous for its largest population of Nilgiri Tahr which are about 1317 in number, according to the 1991 census. Tiger, panther and wild dogs are can be spotted in both the open grass land sholas forests. Civet cat, jungle cat, Sloth bear, Nilgiri langur and wild boar also inhabit in sholas and their fringes. The Atlas moth, the largest of its kind in the world, can also be spotted in this park.
The main inhabitant of the Eravikulam park is Nilgiri Tahr. Now the park has the largest known population of Tahrs existing in …
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