Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary
Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary | |
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Trivandrum - 80 km | |
Coordinates | 8°51′31″N 77°12′38″E / 8.858694°N 77.210649°E[1] |
Length | 23 kilometres (14 mi) |
Area | 172.403 km2 (66.565 sq mi) |
Elevation | 1169m |
Established | 25 June 1984 |
Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary |
Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected area in the
Tropical evergreen and semi-evergreen forest cover a major area of the sanctuary.[5] It has a presence of lion-tailed macaque, a highly endangered species. A brood of the highly elusive nocturnal forest bird, the Great Eared Nightjar was spotted for the first time at Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary in Kollam, Kerala. Earlier, it was recorded from the Siruvani foothills in Tamil Nadu in May 1995. The Great Eared Nightjar (Eurostopodus macrotis bourdilloni) belongs to the nightjar family. It gets its name from the two erect earlike tufts of feathers on its head, behind the eyes).
The first eco-tourism project in India, Thenmala Eco-tourism Project has been formulated in and around Shenduruney Wildlife Sanctuary.[6]
Another important aspect of the Shendurnani Sanctuary is that there is no sandalwood trees here.[citation needed]
References
- ^ "Shendurney Sanctuary". protectedplanet.net.
- ^ "The wild side of biodiversity-rich Kerala". The New Indian Express. 25 November 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ "Royal reserve". The Hindu. 19 March 2006. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
- ^ "Significance of Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary". Shendurney.com. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
- ^ "Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary". Retrieved 19 September 2014.
- ^ "Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary". Archived from the original on 10 April 2013. Retrieved 10 March 2013.