FAUNA

FAUNA

The Western Ghats lies with the Sahyadri mountains ranges along the western side of India and separates the Deccan plateau from a narrow coastal plain of the Arabian Sea. The beautiful green valley is home to thousands of wild animal species including at least 325 globally threatened species. The fauna ofwestern ghats includes 139 mammal species, reptiles, the amphibians- endangered purple frog, 102 species of fish, molluscs, annelids, 508 bird species with malabar grey horn bill and beautiful malabar parakeet and roughly 6,000 species of insects with some of the most beautiful butterfly. The national parks and  hill ranges of Western Ghats serve as an important wildlife corridors to big Indian cats, Great Indian elephants, wild boars, vulnerable Gaur – The Indian bison and vulnerable sloth bears. Apart from the above listed wild species Western Ghat also home to India’s unique wild species such asIndian flying fox, Indian giant squirrel and Nilgiri tahr. Recently Western Ghat is announced as one of the UNESCO world heritage site in India.