Papikonda National Park
Papikonda National Park | |
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Location | Andhra Pradesh, India |
Coordinates | 17°28′58.8″N 81°29′8.2″E / 17.483000°N 81.485611°E |
Area | 1,012.86 km2 (391.07 sq mi) |
Papikonda National Park is a
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
The national park has population of both
Birds
The national park was recognized as an
.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
- ^ "Wildlife Protected Areas Andhra Pradesh". 2014.
- ^ "Papikonda Wildlife Sanctuary". AP forest department. Archived from the original on 25 January 2014. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
- ^ ISBN 978-93-84678-02-9.
- ^ ISBN 9788171885787.
- .
- ^ Francis, W. (1989). Gazetteer of South India. Vol. 1. New Delhi: Mittal Publications. p. 270.
- ^ 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.
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- ^ 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.
- ^ nilesh, v (25 June 2015). "Papikonda forest area shrinks, hunting on rise". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
- PMID 30406924.
External links
- Pakikonda National Park marked on OpenStreetMap