#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.
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