Showing posts with label Kalakad Mundanthurai. Show all posts
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Monday 11 November 2013

Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger - Ambasamudram

Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tamilnadu: Kalakad Mundanthurai (Mundandurai) Tiger Reserve is a wildlife sanctuary situated within tropical wet evergreen forests (rainforests) located at just 50 km from the city of Tirunelveli (Nellai) on theWestern Ghats. The sanctuary is said to be established during 1962 in a view to under the rehabilitation programme of conserving the national animal, Tiger. Both Kalakkad Wildlife Sanctuary and Mundanthurai Wildlife Sanctuary were established simultaneously and both the sanctuaries are conjoined with each other.