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Biodiversity Conservation
(National Parks + Wildlife Sanctuaries + Tiger
Reserves + Marine Protected Areas + UNESCO’s
Natural World Heritage Sites & Biosphere Reserve)
for
UPSC CS Prelims 2019

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Andaman & Campbell bay national park
Nicobar Islands Galathea national park
Mahatma Gandhi marine
(Wandoor) national park
Middle Button island national
park
Mount Harriett national park
North Button Island national
park
Rani Jhansi national park
Saddle Peak national park
South Button national park
Loharbarrrack (Saltwater
Crocodile) wildlife sanctuary
Megapode Island wildlife
sanctuary
Narcondam Island wildlife
sanctuary
South Sentinel Island wildlife
sanctuary
Andhra Pradesh Papikonda national park
Rajiv Gandhi (Rameswaram)
national park
Sri Venkateshwara national
park
Coringa wildlife sanctuary
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Description
• Nicobar island
• Nicobar island - Megapode (chicken like
birds - they bury their eggs for hatching)
• Created under WPA 1972 to protect corals
and nesting sea turtles
• Near port blair - Spotted deer, Blue whale,
Dugong
• (third highest peak after saddle and thullier)
- This is the place behind 20rs note.
• Narcondam Hornbill (endangered), is the
second highest peak in A & N after Saddle
peak, is also a dormant volcano.
• Coconut Crab (Largest living arthropod). It
is found in Asia – Pacific.
• Godavari River flows, recently added into
IBA by Bird life intl.
• Tirumala hills, Seshachalam hills, Red
sanders.
• Marine protected area
• It is the second largest stretch of mangrove
forests in India with 24 mangrove tree
species and more than 120 bird species. It
is home to the critically endangered white-
backed vulture and the long-billed vulture.
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 Koundinya wildlife sanctuary
Rollapadu wildlife sanctuary
Kolleru wildlife sanctuary
Krishna wildlife sanctuary
Nagarjuna Sagar-Srisailam
wildlife sanctuary
Kambalakonda wildlife
sanctuary
Pulicat Lake wildlife
sanctuary
Sri Lankamalleswara wildlife
sanctuary
Arunachal Pradesh Mouling national park
Namdapha national park
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• It is the only sanctuary in Andhra Pradesh
with a population of Asian elephants.
• Great Indian Bustard
• Ramsar Site
• Largest Shallow Freshwater lake in Asia
• Marine protected area
• The area has the potential to become
world's first reserve for a few of the IUCN
identified endangered species including the
fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus) or better
known locally as bavuru pilli.
• Tiger reserve
• Nagarjunsagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve is
the largest tiger reserve in India. Nallamalla
Hills and Krishna River. Site for Buddhist
(Nagarjuna), Jyotirlinga and Shakti Peetha.
• The indicator species is Indian Leopard.
• Marine protected area
• It is the only habitat in the world which
provides home for the Jerdon's courser, a
critically endangered bird species.
• Rivers(Siyom, siring, karbung, semong,
subbung, siang). Flora(Tropical and
temperate, Orange gardens). Red panda.
Mouling means red poison found in latex of
local trees.
• Tiger reserve
• Noa - dihing river, Hills(Mishmi and patkai),
Tropical, temperate, alpine meadows,
orchids, bamboos.
• Only park in the world to have four feline
species - Tiger, leopard, snow leopard,
clouded leopard.
• Hoolock gibbon, binturong, slow loris, musk
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Dibang wildlife sanctuary
Eagle Nest wildlife sanctuary
Kamlang wildlife sanctuary
Pakke (Pakhui) wildlife
sanctuary
Sessa Orchid wildlife
sanctuary
Mehao wildlife sanctuary
Assam Dibru-Saikhowa national park
Kaziranga national park
Manas national park
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flying squirrel (CR), White bellied
heron(CR), amur falcon.
*CR is critically endangered.
• Important Bird Area
• Tiger reserve
• Tiger reserve
• East Kameng district
• This Tiger Reserve has won India
Biodiversity Award 2016 in the category of
'Conservation of threatened species' for its
Hornbill Nest Adoption Programme.
• Kameng river
• Important Bird Area
• Hoolock gibbons, the sole ape species in
India (aside from humans),[3] are being
translocated to the sanctuary from other
fragmented habitats.
• UNESCO's biosphere reserve
• Rivers (Brahmaputra, Lohit, Dibru). Greater
adjutant and bengal florican.
• Tiger reserve
• UNESCO's world natural heritage site
• Rivers (Bramhaputra, Diphlu, Dhansri).
Karbi anlong plateau, Mikir hills. Terai and
Duar. Orchids, One horned rhino, Swamp
deer(barasingha), hispid hare, Indian and
chinese pangolin.
• Storks and vultures, Black bellied tern.
• Tagi ghar - tree house
• Flood formed lakes - beels
• Elevated region – chapories
• Pollution issues due to a nearby refinery.
• Tiger reserve
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• UNESCO's biosphere reserve
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 • UNESCO's world natural heritage site
• Rivers (manas, sankosh, dhansri).
• Pygmy hog (CR).
• shares boundary with bhutan.
Nameri national park • Tiger reserve
Orang (Rajiv Gandhi) • Tiger reserve
national park
Deepor beel wildlife • Ramsar Site
sanctuary
Dihing Patkai wildlife
sanctuary
Garampani wildlife sanctuary
Hollongapar Gibbon wildlife • contains India's only gibbons – the hoolock
sanctuary gibbons, and Northeastern India's only
nocturnal primate – the Bengal slow loris.
Pobitora wildlife sanctuary • is mainly famous for its great Indian One-
horned rhinoceros. Under the Indian Rhino
Vision 2020 (IRV 2020) which is a joint
programme of the department of
environment & forests, Govt of Assam,
WWF India, the International Rhino
Foundation and the US fish & wildlife
service, six rhinos were translocated from
Pobitora and re-introduced into the Manas
National Park between December 2010 and
January 2011.
Sonai Rupai wildlife
sanctuary
Bihar Valmiki national park • Tiger reserve
• Gandak, Someshwar hill, shares boundary
with nepal's chitwan NP.
Gautam Buddha wildlife
sanctuary
Kaimur wildlife sanctuary
Kanwar Taal wildlife • The Kanwar Taal or Kabar Taal Lake
sanctuary located in Begusarai district of Bihar, India,
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 Kusheshwar Asthan Bird
wildlife sanctuary
Vikramashila Gangetic • is located in Bhagalpur District of Bihar,
Dolphin wildlife sanctuary India.
Chandigarh Sukhna Lake •
Chhattisgarh Guru Ghasidas national park • Sal teak bamboo, tendu, ber, jamun
Indravati (Kutru) national park • Tiger reserve
• Sal teak bamboo, tendu, ber, jamun
• Indravati river flows towards West
Kanger Valley national park • Sal teak bamboo, tendu, ber, jamun.
• Godavari, Limestone caves.
Achanakamar wildlife • Tiger reserve
sanctuary • UNESCO's biosphere reserve
Badalkhol wildlife sanctuary
Pamed Wild Buffalo wildlife
sanctuary
Sitanadi wildlife sanctuary • Tiger reserve
Tamor Pingla wildlife
sanctuary
Udanti Wild Buffalo • Tiger reserve
Dadra & Nagar Dadra & Nagar Haveli wildlife • Marine protected area
Haveli sanctuary
Diu & Daman Fudam wildlife sanctuary • Marine protected area
Delhi Asola Bhati (Indira
Priyadarshini) wildlife
sanctuary
Goa Bhagwan Mahavir Mollem • yellow throated bulbul - goa state bird
national park
Dr. Salim Ali Bird (Chorao) • Marine protected area
wildlife sanctuary
Gujarat Vansda national park
Blackbuck (Velavadar)
national park
Gir national park
Marine (Gulf of Kachcch) • Marine protected area
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 • First marine NP, surrounded by coral reefs
Girnar wildlife sanctuary
Kachcch (lala) Great Indian • Flamingo
Bustard wildlife sanctuary
Khijadiya Bird wildlife • Marine protected area
sanctuary
Nal Sarovar Bird wildlife • Ramsar Site
sanctuary
Narayan Sarovar wildlife • Chinkara
sanctuary • Reintroduction of Asiatic Cheetah
Purna wildlife sanctuary
Ratanmahal Sloth Bear
wildlife sanctuary
Shoolpaneswar (Dhumkal)
wildlife sanctuary
Wild Ass wildlife sanctuary • is located in the Little Rann of Kutch in the
Gujarat state of India. Spread over 4954
km², it is the largest wildlife sanctuary in
India. The Rann of Kutch is a sealine
desert. During monsoon, the Rann (Gujarati
for desert) gets flooded for a period of
about one month and is dotted with about
74 elevated plateaus or islands, locally
called 'bets'. These bets are covered with
grass and feed the population of around
2100 animals
Haryana Kalesar national park • Yamuna river
Sultanpur national park
Nahar wildlife sanctuary
Himachal Pradesh Great Himalayan national • UNESCO's world natural heritage site
park • Kullu
Inderkilla national park • Kullu
Khirganga national park • Kullu
Pin Valley national park • Lahaul & Spiti
Simbalbara national park • Near Sirmaur
Chail wildlife sanctuary
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Pong dam wildlife sanctuary • Ramsar Site

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Renuka wildlife sanctuary
Jammu & Kashmir City Forest (Salim Ali)
national park
Dachigam national park
Hemis national park
Kishtwar national park
Hirpora wildlife sanctuary
Karakoram (Nubra Shyok)
wildlife sanctuary
Jharkhand Betla national park
Gautam Buddha wildlife
sanctuary
Hazaribagh wildlife sanctuary
Dalma wildlife sanctuary
Mahuadanr Wolf wildlife
sanctuary
Palamau wildlife sanctuary
Parasnath wildlife sanctuary
Udhwa Lake Bird wildlife
sanctuary
Karnataka Anshi national park
Bannerghatta national park
Bandipur national park
Kudremukha national park
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• Maharanapratap Sagar
• Beas river
• Ramsar Site
• In srinagar
• largest in india and south asia - indus flows
here - juniper salix birch fir - Himalayan
griffon vulture - highest density of snow
leopard in the world. Hemis
gompa(monastery) - Hemis tsechu festival
• Markhor
• Chiru
• Tiberan Antelope
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• Elephants
• Tiger reserve
• Tiger reserve
• Kali river
• Suvarnamukhi river
• Tiger reserve
• Kabini and Moyar river
• (3rd highest peak in K'taka after
mullayanagiri and bababudangiri) - Tunga,
Bhadra, Nethravati river - Shola grasslands
- Lion tailed macaque
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 Nagarahole (Rajiv Gandhi) • Tiger reserve
national park • Lakshmanatirtha river, Kabini
river(reservoir) - Bramhagiri Hills -
chevrotain (mouse deer), harpegnathos
saltator ants - jump upto 1 metre, giant
flying squirrels.
Adichunchanagiri Peacock
wildlife sanctuary
Bhadra wildlife sanctuary • Tiger reserve
Bhimgad wildlife sanctuary • Wroughton’s free tailed bat (Critically
endangered), Found mainly in WG but also
in NE states and Cambodia.
Biligiri Ranganathaswamy • Tiger reserve
Temple wildlife sanctuary
Dandeli wildlife sanctuary • Tiger reserve
• Great Hornbill
• Black Panther
Daroji Bear wildlife sanctuary
Gudekote Sloth Bear wildlife
sanctuary
Ranebennur Blackbuck
wildlife sanctuary
Ranganathittu Bird wildlife
sanctuary
Ramadevarabetta Vulture
wildlife sanctuary
Rangayyanadurga Four
horned antelope wildlife
sanctuary
Yadahalli Chinkara wildlife
sanctuary
Kerala Anaimudi Shola national park
Eravikulam national park • Rivers (Cauvery, Periyar) , Anaimudi
hills(highest peak of peninsula), Nilgiri
Marten(endemic), neelakurinji (blossoms
once in 12 years)
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 Mathikettan Shola national
park
Pambudan Shola national
park
Periyar national park • Tiger reserve
• Salim ali fruit bat, mullaperiyar dam.
Silent Valley national park • rivers (kuntipuzha, bharatapuzha)
Chinnar wildlife sanctuary
Chulannur Peafowl wildlife
sanctuary
Kurinjimala wildlife sanctuary
Malabar wildlife sanctuary
Mangalavanam wildlife
sanctuary
Neyyar wildlife sanctuary
Parambikulam wildlife • Tiger reserve
sanctuary • Gaur (Bison)
Thattekad Bird wildlife
sanctuary
Kadalundi Vallikkunnu • Marine protected area
Community Reserve
Lakshadweep Pitti (Bird Island) wildlife
sanctuary
Madhya Pradesh Bandhavgarh national park • Tiger reserve
• Son river, Satpura, Vindhya, Buddhist
caves
Dinosaur Fossils national
park
Fossil national park
Pench (Indira Priyadarshini) • Tiger reserve
national park • Satpura, Ain - i - akbari, Jungle book
Kanha national park • Tiger reserve
• Narmada river, Maikal hills, Jungle book
inspiration
Madhav national park • Madhav sagar lake, ancient rock paintings
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Panna (Gangau) national • Tiger reserve

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 • UNESCO's biosphere reserve
• Ken river, rock paintings
Sanjay national park • Tiger reserve
Satpura national park • Tiger reserve
• Narmada river - muntjac (barking deer)
Van Vihar national park
Ken Gharial wildlife sanctuary
National Chambal wildlife • Red crowned roof turtle
sanctuary • Gangetic Dolphin
Nauradehi wildlife sanctuary • Reintroduction of Asiatic Cheetah
Pachmarhi wildlife sanctuary • UNESCO's biosphere reserve
Kuno Palpur wildlife • Asiatic Lion and Cheetah reintroduction
sanctuary
Phen wildlife sanctuary
Ratapani wildlife sanctuary • Bhimbetka caves is located inside this.
Sailana wildlife sanctuary
Son Gharial wildlife sanctuary
Veerangna Durgavati wildlife
sanctuary
Maharashtra Chandoli national park
Gugamal national park
Nawegaon national park • Tiger reserve
Pench (Jawaharlal Nehru) • Tiger reserve
national park
Sanjay Gandhi (Borivili- • Hanuman langur (leaf monkey) - kanheri
Mumbai) national park caves
Tadoba national park • Tiger reserve
• Star tortoise
Melghat wildlife sanctuary • Tiger reserve
Sahyadri wildlife sanctuary • Tiger reserve
Bor wildlife sanctuary • Tiger reserve
Great Indian Bustard wildlife
sanctuary
Karanja Sohal Blackbuck
wildlife sanctuary
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 Radhanagari wildlife • Part of UNESCO’s natural world heritage
sanctuary site (Western Ghats).
• Bison
Malvan Marine wildlife • Marine protected area
sanctuary
Naigaon Peacock wildlife
sanctuary
Narnala Bird wildlife
sanctuary
Painganga wildlife sanctuary
Pranhita wildlife sanctuary
Thane Creek Flamingo • Marine protected area
wildlife sanctuary
Tungareshwar wildlife
sanctuary
Manipur Keibul-Lamjao national park • Sangai (Dancing deer) - Loktak
lake(floating phumdi - decomposed plants)
Sirohi National Park • Shurui Lily flower (State flower)
Yangoupokpi wildlife
sanctuary
Khongjaingamba Ching
wildlife sanctuary
Meghalaya Balphakram national park • simsang river
• garo hills - near bangladesh border -
canyon landform - also called abode of
perpetual winds and land of spirits
Nokrek national park • UNESCO's biosphere reserve
• simsang river
• Garo hills - rare orchids - wild orange
(memang narang) - also national citrus
gene sanctuary - Siju limestone caves
Baghmara Pitcher Plant
wildlife sanctuary
Nongkhyllem wildlife
sanctuary
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Siju wildlife sanctuary

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 Mizoram Murlen national park
Phawngpui Blue Mountain
national park
Dampa wildlife Sanctuary
Nagaland Intanki national park
Fakim wildlife sanctuary
Puliebadze wildlife sanctuary
Rangapahar wildlife
sanctuary
Odisha Bhitakarnika national park
Similipal national park
Satkosia wildlife sanctuary
Chilika (Nalaban) wildlife
sanctuary
Gahirmatha (Marine) wildlife
sanctuary
Sunabeda wildlife sanctuary
Balukhand Konark wildlife
sanctuary
Rajasthan Desert national park
Keoladeo Ghana national
park
Mukundra Hills national park
Ranathambore national park
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• Only 1% sunshine penetrates - also known
as losing area of seven fellow men
• orchids - rhododendrons - Mr hume's
pheasant - mizo state bird.
• Tiger reserve
• Marine protected area
• Ramsar Site
• Baitarni and Brahmani river - Olive ridley
turtles - salt water and white crocs -
Gahirmatha beach
• UNESCO's biosphere reserve
• Santhal tribes, cerebral malaria.
• Tiger reserve
• Marine protected area
• Ramsar Site
• Largest coastal lagoon in India and 2nd
largest in the world.
• Marine protected area
• Olive Ridley Turtle
• Marine protected area
• Great Indian Bustard
• Ramsar Site
• UNESCO's world natural heritage site
• siberian crane (the ones which used to visit
here are extinct now) and storks.
• Tiger reserve
• Tiger reserve
• Banas and chambal river - project tiger
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 Sariska national park • Tiger reserve
National chambal wildlife
sanctuary
Sitamata wildlife sanctuary • Reintroduction of Asiatic Lion
Tal Chhapar wildlife • Blackbuck
sanctuary
Van Vihar wildlife sanctuary
Sikkim Khangchendzonga national • UNESCO’s mixed world heritage site
park • UNESCO's biosphere reserve
• 3rd highest peak in the world and highest in
India - Lepcha tribes
Barsey Rhododendron
wildlife sanctuary
Kitam Bird wildlife sanctuary
Kyongnosia Alpine wildlife
sanctuary
Shingba Rhododendron
wildlife sanctuary
Tamil Nadu Guindy national park • In Chennai
Gulf of Mannar Marine • Marine protected area
national park • UNESCO's biosphere reserve
• Dugong
Annamalai (Indira Gandhi) • Tiger reserve
national park
Mudumalai national park • Tiger reserve
• White rumped and long billed vultures (both
CR)
Mukurthi national park • Nilgiri Tahr(keystone species here)
Sathyamangalam wildlife • Tiger reserve
sanctuary • Meeting of Eastern & Western Ghats
Chitrangudi wildlife sanctuary
Cauvery North wildlife
sanctuary
Gangaikondam Spotted Deer
wildlife sanctuary
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 Kanyakumari wildlife
sanctuary
Karaivetti wildlife sanctuary
karikilli wildlife sanctuary
Kodaikanal wildlife sanctuary
Oussudu Lake Bird wildlife
sanctuary
Point Calimere wildlife • Marine protected area
sanctuary • Ramsar Site
Pulicat Lake Bird wildlife • Marine protected area
sanctuary
Sakkarakottai Bird wildlife
sanctuary
Srivilliputhur Grizzled Squirrel
wildlife sanctuary
Theerthangal Bird wildlife
sanctuary
Udayamarthandapuram Lake
wildlife sanctuary
Vaduvoor Bird wildlife
sanctuary
Vedanthangal Lake Bird
wildlife sanctuary
Vellanadu Blackbuck wildlife
sanctuary
Vellaode Birds wildlife
sanctuary
Vettangudi Birds wildlife
sanctuary
Telangana Kasu Brahmananda Reddy • Hyderabad
national park
Mahaveer Harina Vanasthali • Hyderabad
national park
Mrugavani national park • Hyderabad
Amrabad (Nagarjunasagar- • Tiger reserve
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Srisailam) wildlife sanctuary

Kawal wildlife sanctuary • Tiger reserve
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 Manjeera Crododile wildlife
sanctuary
Pranahita wildlife sanctuary
Tripura Clouded Leopard national
park
Bison (rajbari) national park
Gumti wildlife sanctuary
Sepahijala wildlife sanctuary
Uttar Pradesh Dudhwa national park • Tiger reserve
• Barasingha/Swamp deer
Pilbhit wildlife sanctuary • Tiger reserve
Amangarh • Tiger reserve (It is the buffer area of
Corbett National Park of Uttarakhand)
Chandraprabha wildlife
sanctuary
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Bird
wildlife sanctuary
JP Narayan (Surhatal) Bird
wildlife sanctuary
Kaimur wildlife sanctuary
Lake Bahosi Bird wildlife
sanctuary
National Chambal wildlife
sanctuary
Sur Sarovar wildlife
sanctuary
Turtle wildlife sanctuary
Uttarakhand Corbett national park • Tiger reserve
• Patli dun
Gangotri national park • Bhagirathi River - snow leopard
Govind national park • Har - ki - dun
• snow leopard project
Nanda devi national park • UNESCO's biosphere reserve
• UNESCO's world natural heritage site
Rajaji national park • Tiger reserve
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 Valley of Flowers national
park
Nandhaur wildlife sanctuary
West Bengal Buxa national park
Gorumara national park
Jaldapara national park
Neora Valley national park
Singalila national park
Sunderban national park
Chintamani Kar Bird wildlife
sanctuary
Jorepokhri Salamander
wildlife sanctuary
Haliday Island wildlife
sanctuary
Lothian Island wildlife
sanctuary
Pakhi Baitan Bird wildlife
sanctuary
Sajnakhali wildlife sanctuary
West Sundarbans wildlife
sanctuary
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• UNESCO's world natural heritage site
• Tiger reserve
• Bhutan border
• Darjeeling
• Darjeeling
• Tiger reserve
• Marine protected area
• Ramsar Site
• UNESCO's biosphere reserve
• UNESCO's world natural heritage site
• Sundari trees- bengal tiger, river terrapin,
ganges dolphin, hawksbill turtle
• Marine protected area
• Marine protected area
• Marine protected area
• Marine protected area
• Ramsar Site
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Facts:

1. Conservation reserves and community reserves in India are terms denoting protected areas of India
which typically act as buffer zones to or connectors and migration corridors between established
national parks, wildlife sanctuaries and reserved and protected forests of India. Such areas are
designated as conservation areas if they are uninhabited and completely owned by the Government
of India but used for subsistence by communities and community areas if part of the lands is
privately owned.
These protected area categories were first introduced in the Wildlife (Protection) Amendment Act of
2002 − the amendment to the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972. These categories were added
because of reduced protection in and around existing or proposed protected areas due to private
ownership of land, and land use.
2. Conservation reserves are located only in Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir,
Karnataka, Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand and West Bengal.
3. Garpanchkot in West Bengal is the largest conservation reserve in India. The second largest is
Aghanashini in Karnataka.
4. Community reserves are located only in Karnataka, Kerala, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Punjab.
5. Dambuk Allonge in Meghalaya is the largest community reserve in India.
6. Biosphere reserves are sites established by countries and recognized under UNESCO's Man and
the Biosphere (MAB) Programme to promote sustainable development based on local community
efforts and sound science.The programme of Biosphere Reserve was initiated by UNESCO in 1971.
The purpose of the formation of the biosphere reserve is to conserve in situ all forms of life, along
with its support system, in its totality, so that it could serve as a referral system for monitoring and
evaluating changes in natural ecosystems.
7. Nilgiri biosphere reserve is in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. It covers Wayanad, Nagarhole,
Bandipur, Mudumalai, Silent hills, Nilambur and Siruvani hills.
8. Great Nicobar is declared as a biosphere reserve.
9. Dihang-Dibang in Arunachal Pradesh is declared as a biosphere reserve.
10. Agasthyamalai is declared as a biosphere reserve. It covers Neyyar, Peppara and Shendurney
Wildlife Sanctuaries and their adjoining areas in Kerala
11. Cold desert is declared as a biosphere reserve. It covers Pin Valley National Park and
surroundings; Chandratal and Sarchu&Kibber Wildlife Sancturary in Himachal Pradesh.
12. Seshachalam hills is declared as a biosphere reserve. It covers parts of Chittoor and Kadapa
districts of Andhra Pradesh.
13. Kachcch is the largest biosphere reserve in India.
14. Biodiversity heritage sites are declared by National biodiversity authority (Autonomous & Statutory
body of MoEFCC).
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 a. Nallur tamarind grove in karnataka: It is popularly believed to be a relic of the Chola Dynasty
that ruled nearly 800 years ago, is spectacle of awesome wonder and a freakish site. This
BHS spread over 54 acres comprising a population of nearly 300 trees, is a picture of
dynamic pattern of plant diversity.
b. Hogrekan in Karnataka: The area has unique Shola vegetation and grass land with number
of floral species which are unique and having lot of medicinal value. Hogrekan is moderately
wooded land and its vegetation is of dry deciduous type and has a link with Bababudanagiri
and Kemmangundi, adjoining Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary and Yemmedode Tiger Reserve
and serving as "Wildlife Corridor" between Kudremukha and Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary.
c. University of Agricultural campus in Bengaluru.
d. Ambarguda in Karnataka: It is a revenue land located between Sharavathi Wild Life
Sanctuary and Someshwara Wildlife Sanctuary. It has Shola vegetation which is primitive
vegetation in the Western Ghat and also has grasslands.
e. Glory of Alapalli in Maharashtra: It is a reserved forest being preserved as natural forest
having biological, ethinical and historical values.
f. Tonglu and Dhotrey in Darjeeling: It is a Medicinal Plant Conservation Area.
g. Dialong village in Manipur.
h. Ameenpur lake in Telangana
i. Majuli island in Assam
j. Gharial rehabilitation centre in Uttar Pradesh.
k. Chilkigarh Kanak Durga in West Bengal: It is a sacred grove.
l. Khlaw Kur Syiem Kmielng in Meghalaya: It is a mosaic of natural habitats along with
significant diversity of life forms. It is also an old Sacred Grove with monoliths and religious
spots.
m. Mandasaru in Odisha.
16. Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) is an umbrella term commonly used to include areas that contribute
to the global persistence of biodiversity, including vital habitat for threatened plant and animal
species in terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems. Globally KBAs are designated based on
11 criteria defined under five broad categories of threatened biodiversity; geographically restricted
biodiversity; ecological integrity; biological processes; and, irreplaceability. The criteria for
designating a site as KBA have been described in the document "The Global Standard for the
Identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (2016)" by International Union for Conservation of Nature
(IUCN). IUCN identifies 531 KBA sites in India but these have no legal basis.
The World Database of Key Biodiversity Areas is managed by BirdLife International on behalf of the
KBA Partnership.
17. UNESCO’s natural world heritage site of Western Ghats is spread across Maharashtra, Goa,
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