Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary

Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary:

Nine species were discovered during a faunal survey by Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) at Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary.

• Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary is located in Tamil Nadu.
• This wildlife sanctuary serves as a buffer zone for the Periyar Tiger Reserve in Kerala, as it is situated on the border of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
• It is home to a diverse variety of flora and fauna shrubs and evergreen forests to mammals.
• It mainly consists of scrub forest (at the foothills) to dense evergreen forest and shola grasslands (at the top).
• Banyan Tree, Syzygium zeylanicum, Nothopegia vajravelui, Memecylon flavescens, Symplocos oligandra, Symplocos wynadense, Meiogyne ramarowii,
• The sanctuary is home to elephants, tigers, leopards, Nilgiri tahr, gaurs, spotted deer, barking deer, sambar deer, wild boar, porcupine, Nilgiri langur, lion-tailed macaque.
• The wood snake is endemic to the Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary.