Male Mahadeshwara Wildlife Sanctuary

Male Mahadeshwara Hills Wildlife Sanctuary Latest News

Recent official data from the Forest Department shows that Male Mahadeshwara Hills Wildlife Sanctuary accounted for nearly half of the poaching cases and illegal arms cases registered in the last 16 years. 

About Male Mahadeshwara Hills Wildlife Sanctuary

• Location: It is located at the intersection of the Western and the Eastern Ghats and falls in the Chamarajanagara District of Karnataka.
• It was declared a wildlife sanctuary in 2013.
• It is contiguous to Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple (BRT) Tiger Reserve, Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve, and the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary.
• It’s the home of the famous Male Mahadeshwara Temple, dedicated to Lord Shiva, known here as Mahadeshwara.
• Male Mahadeshwara Hills is bound by the Kaveri River to the northeast and by the Palar River to the south.
• Vegetation: It mainly consists of the dry deciduous type, degrading to scrub forest in the fringe areas, and interspersed with patches of moist deciduous, semi-evergreen, evergreen and shola forests occurring at varying altitudes.
• Flora: Anogeissus latifolia, Boswellia serrata, Hardwikia binata and Chloroxylon swietenia etc.
• Fauna: It is home to elephants, Indian bison,tigers, wild dogs, leopards, foxes, sambars, spotted deer, and many species of birds.

Source: DH

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