Papikonda National Park

Coordinates: 17°28′58.8″N 81°29′8.2″E / 17.483000°N 81.485611°E / 17.483000; 81.485611
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Papikonda National Park
LocationAndhra Pradesh, India
Coordinates17°28′58.8″N 81°29′8.2″E / 17.483000°N 81.485611°E / 17.483000; 81.485611
Area1,012.86 km2 (391.07 sq mi)

Papikonda National Park is a

Polavaram Dam
.

History

Papikonda Wildlife Sanctuary was established in 1978.[4] It was upgraded to a national park in 2008.

Geography

The national park's boundaries lie between 18° 49’ 20" N to 19° 18’ 14" N, 79° 54’ 13" E to 83° 23’ 35" E spread across the Alluri Sitharama Raju and Eluru districts of Andhra Pradesh. Its altitude ranges from 20 to 850 m (66 to 2,789 ft), and it receives an annual rainfall of 1168 mm. Godavari River flows through the park.[3]

Flora

The vegetation of Papikonda national park contains species of moist deciduous and dry deciduous forests.[4] Tree species include Pterocarpus marsupium, Terminalia elliptica, Terminalia arjuna, Adina cordifolia, Sterculia urens, Mangifera indica, Anogeissus latifolia.[3]

Fauna

Mammals

The mammals either sighted or recorded by

Indian muntjac, Indian spotted chevrotain, Gaur, Nilgai and Four-horned antelope.[5]

The national park has population of both

Gray langurs are also seen inside the national park.[3] The presence of water buffaloes in the area was recorded during the British imperial time.[6]

Birds

The national park was recognized as an

Great Thick-knee, River lapwing, River tern, Malabar pied hornbill, Alexandrine parakeet
.

Some of the tropical moist forest species of birds sighted were Black-throated munia, Indian scimitar babbler, Jerdon's nightjar, Malabar trogon Malabar whistling thrush. A subspecies of Abbott's babbler identified and named after ornithologist K. S. R. Krishna Raju was sighted around the periphery of the national park.[7]

Reptiles

Indian golden gecko, endemic to the Eastern Ghats was reported from this national park.[8] King cobras were sighted in and around the protected area.[3][9]

Threats

The Polavaram irrigation project once completed will submerge parts of the national park.[1]

Poaching, forest fires and clearing forest for podu cultivation were some of the threats.[3][10][11]

References

  1. ^ "Wildlife Protected Areas Andhra Pradesh". 2014.
  2. ^ "Papikonda Wildlife Sanctuary". AP forest department. Archived from the original on 25 January 2014. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-93-84678-02-9
    .
  4. ^
    ISBN 9788171885787
    .
  5. doi:10.11609/jott.3021.9.10.10823-10830
    .
  6. ^ Francis, W. (1989). Gazetteer of South India. Vol. 1. New Delhi: Mittal Publications. p. 270.
  7. ^ Ripley, S. D.; Beehler, B. M. "A new subspecies of the babbler genus Malacocincla abbotti from the Eastern Ghats, India". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 105 (2): 67.
  8. doi:10.11609/JoTT.ZPJ.1735.2727-9
    .
  9. ^ Satyanarayana, J. E.; Balaji, K. (2018). "King Cobra: Occurrence of Ophiophagus hannah in Papikonda National Park, Eastern Ghats, Andhra Pradesh". Zoo's Print. 33 (3): 15–18.
  10. ^ nilesh, v (25 June 2015). "Papikonda forest area shrinks, hunting on rise". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  11. PMID 30406924
    .

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