Nagarhole National Park is one among India's best wildlife parks,
established in 1955 as a sanctuary and designated as a National park in
1975. Recently it was renamed as Rajiv Gandhi National Park after the
late Prime Minister of India.
The park is located at Kodagu (Coorg) in Mysore
district in the state of Karnataka. The vast area of the park, 572.90
sq km is united with Arikeri, Hatgat, Nalkeri, Mysore reserve forests,
streams, waterfalls, Hills and valleys etc .
Nagarhole is part of the 2400 sq km of forest which includes
the Bandipur National Park in Karnataka, Mudhumalai Wildlife Sanctuary
in Tamil Nadu, Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary in Kerala which together
constitute the Niligiri Biosphere Reserve. This is the largest forest
cover of its kind in South East Asia. The altitude of Nagarhole Park varies
between 700-850 meters. The maximum temperature reaches 33 degrees C and
the minimum is 14 degrees.
The Park mainly consists of moist deciduous forest in
the northern and western parts and dry deciduous forest in the south-eastern
part. Plantations of teak, Rosewood, bamboo, sandal, silver oak trees
and species of eucalyptus cover most of the area of the park.
This park is an ideal habitat for wildlife. It contains varied and
rare kind of animal species. Apart from the elephants and tiger there
are panther, chital, sambar, sloth bear and Indian wild dogs (dhole).
Animals like Bonner Macaque, gaur, Nilgiri Langur (adjoining areas), Dhole,
Smooth-coated Otter, Common Palm Civet, Stripe-necked Mongoose, Jungle
Cat, Tiger, Wild Boar, Chital, Gaur, Indian Palm Squirrel, Grizzled Indian
Squirrel, Liontail Macaque, Golden Jackal, Sloth Bear, Indian Grey Mongoose,
Striped Hyaena, Rusty-spotted Cat, Ratel, Indian Spotted Chevrotain, Sambar,
Nilgiri Tahr (adjoining areas). |
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