🔆Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple (BRT) Tiger Reserve:
✅Location: Karnataka.
✅Area: 574.82 Km².
✅It derives its name BILIGIRI from the white rocky cliff on the top of which is a temple of Lord VISHNU locally known as Rangaswamy.
✅It is also believed that the hill range gets its name by white mist and silver clouds that cover these lofty hills for a greater part of the year.
✅In Kannada, Biligiri means white hills – hence the name.
✅It is situated in the middle of the bridge between the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats in South India.
✅This unique sanctuary exhibits scrub, dry deciduous, moist deciduous, evergreen, semi evergreen and shola forests.
✅It was constituted as a Wildlife Sanctuary in 1974.
✅BRT Wildlife Sanctuary was declared as a Tiger Reserve in 2011.
✅Flora: Anogeissus latifolia, Dalbergia paniculata, Grewia teliaefolia, Terminalia alata, Terminalia bellirica, Terminalia paniculata, among others.
✅It is widely known for its many endemic species of plants including valuable medicinal ones.
✅Fauna: tigers, elephants, leopards, wild dogs, bison, sambars, spotted deer, barking deer, four-horned antelope, sloth bears, wild boars, etc.
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✅Location: Karnataka.
✅Area: 574.82 Km².
✅It derives its name BILIGIRI from the white rocky cliff on the top of which is a temple of Lord VISHNU locally known as Rangaswamy.
✅It is also believed that the hill range gets its name by white mist and silver clouds that cover these lofty hills for a greater part of the year.
✅In Kannada, Biligiri means white hills – hence the name.
✅It is situated in the middle of the bridge between the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats in South India.
✅This unique sanctuary exhibits scrub, dry deciduous, moist deciduous, evergreen, semi evergreen and shola forests.
✅It was constituted as a Wildlife Sanctuary in 1974.
✅BRT Wildlife Sanctuary was declared as a Tiger Reserve in 2011.
✅Flora: Anogeissus latifolia, Dalbergia paniculata, Grewia teliaefolia, Terminalia alata, Terminalia bellirica, Terminalia paniculata, among others.
✅It is widely known for its many endemic species of plants including valuable medicinal ones.
✅Fauna: tigers, elephants, leopards, wild dogs, bison, sambars, spotted deer, barking deer, four-horned antelope, sloth bears, wild boars, etc.
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