Nagarhole National Park

#National_park_series

✅It is also known as Rajiv Gandhi National Park.

✅ established as a wildlife sanctuary in 1955 and was upgraded into a national park in 1988.

✅ It was declared as the 37th Tiger reserve under Project Tiger in 1999.

✅There are 51 Tiger reserves in India.

✅The latest addition in this list is Srivilliputhur Meghamalai Tiger Reserve of Tamil Nadu, which got approval in 2021.

✅The Park lies in the Western Ghats and is a part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.

✅Rivers:

The Nagarahole River flows through the park, which joins the Kabini River which also is a boundary between Nagarahole and Bandipur Ntional Park.

✅Flora:

The vegetation consists mainly of moist deciduous forests with predominating trees of teak and rosewood.

✅Fauna:

Asian elephants, chital (spotted deer), Indian mouse deer, gaur, stripe-necked and ruddy mongooses, grey langur, bonnet macaque, Asian wild dog, leopard, tiger, sloth bear among others.