Anamalai Tiger Reserve

About Anamalai Tiger Reserve:

 

• Location:
  • It is a protected area located at an altitude of 1400 m in the Anamalai Hills of Pollachi and Coimbatore District of Tamil Nadu.
  • It lies South of the Palakkad gap in the Southern Western Ghats. 
  • It is surrounded by Parambikulum Tiger Reserve on the East, Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary and Eravikulum National Park on the South Western side.
  • The reserve is also surrounded by Nenmara, Vazhachal, Malayattur and Marayur reserved forests of Kerala.
  • It was declared a Tiger reserve in the year 2007.
• Habitat:
  • It supports diverse habitat types viz. Wet evergreen forests, semi-evergreen forests, moist deciduous, dry deciduous, dry thorn and shola forests.
  • Other unique habitats like montane grasslands, savannah and marshy grass lands are also present.
• Flora:
  • Around 2500 species of angiosperms are found in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve, with several species of Balsam, Crotalaria, Orchids and Kurinchi.
  • The reserve is rich in wild relatives of cultivated species like mango, jackfruit, wild plantain, ginger (Zingiber officinale), turmeric,  pepper (Piper longum), cardamom etc.
• Fauna: The important wild animals of the reserve include: Tiger, Asiatic elephant, Sambar, Spotted deer, Barking deer, Jackal, Leopard, Jungle cat etc.

 

What is Siena Drone Photo Awards?

• It is the most important worldwide competition in aerial photography and video.
• It’s a project of Siena Awards, dedicated to a different photographic genre deliberately separated from being compared to traditional photography.
• The competition is open to aerial photography and videos whose platforms also include fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, balloons, blimps and dirigibles, rockets, kites, and parachutes.

 

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Q1) What is Siena Drone Photo Awards?

It is the most important worldwide competition in aerial photography and video. It’s a project of Siena Awards, dedicated to a different photographic genre deliberately separated from being compared to traditional photography.

Source: An elephant image shot at Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) has emerged the winner at Drone Photo Awards 2023