Kawal Tiger Reserve:
Forest officials are gearing up to conduct the wildlife census at the Kawal Tiger Reserve.
- It is located in the state of Telangana.
- It is along the banks of river Godavari, forming part of the Deccan peninsula-central highlands.
- The reserve is nestled in the Sahyadri Mountain Ranges.
- The government of India declared Kawal Wildlife Sanctuary a Tiger Reserve in 2012.
- The reserve is the catchment for the rivers Godavari and Kadam, which flow towards the south of the sanctuary.
- Geographically, the reserve is situated at the southernmost tip of the Central Indian Tiger Landscape, having linkages with the Tadoba-Andhari (Maharashtra) and Indravati (Chhattisgarh) tiger reserves.
- It has diverse habitats comprising dense forests, grasslands, rivers, streams and water bodies.
- It consists of teak along with Bamboo and other species like Anogeissus latifolia, Mitragyna parviflora, Terminalia crenulata, Terminalia arjuna, Boswellia serrata, etc.
- It includes Nilgai, chousinga, chinkara, black buck, sambar, spotted deer etc.
