National parks of India

By- KC HARSHVANTH
V VISHNU KARTHIKEYAN
S KRISH KARAN
ADESH S NAIR
Y SHRAVAN
GUINDY NATIONAL PARK
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MAP VIEW
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 INRODUCTION
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 Guindy National Park is a 2.70 km2
protected area of Tamil Nadu, located in Chennai,
India, is the 8th-smallest National Park of India and
one of the very few national parks situated inside a
city. The park is an extension of the grounds
surrounding Raj Bhavan, formerly known as the ‘
Guindy Lodge', the official residence of the governor
of Tamil Nadu, India. It extends deep inside the
governor's estate, enclosing beautiful forests, scrub
lands, lakes and streams
History Of Guindy National Park
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 Once covering an area of 5 km2 (1.93 sq mi) of one of
the last remnants of tropical dry evergreen forest of
the Coromandel coast, the Guindy Park was
originally a game reserve. In the early 1670s, a
garden space was carved out of the Guindy forest
and a residence called the Guindy Lodge was built by
Governor William Langhorne (1672–1678), which
helped make St Thomas Mount a salubrious place for
rest and recreation.
Habitats Of Guindy National Park
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 The Guindy National Park, Raj Bhavan and IIT-
Madras habitat complex has historically enjoyed a
certain degree of protection and has continued to
support some of the last remnants of the natural
habitats that typify the natural range of plant and
animal biodiversity of the Coromandel-
 Circar coastal plains in the northeastern Tamil Nadu.
Flora Of Guindy National Park
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 The park has a dry evergreen scrub and thorn forest,
grasslands and water bodies with over 350 species of
plants including shrubs, climbers, herbs and grasses
and over 24 variety of trees, including the
sugar-apple, monophylla, wood-apple, and neem.
 This flora provides an ideal habitat for over 150
species of birds. About one-sixth of the park has been
left as open grassland to preserve that habitat for
blackbucks.
Fauna Of Guindy National Park
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 There are over 14 species of mammals including
blackbuck, chital or spotted deer, jackal,
small Indian civet, common palm civet,
bonnet macaque, hyena, pangolin, hedgehog,
common mongoose and three-striped palm squirrel.
The park also has black-naped hare and several
species of bats and rodents.
GIR NATIONAL PARK
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 Introduction
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 Gir National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary, also known
as Sasan Gir, is a forest, national park, and
wildlife sanctuary near Talala Gir in Gujarat, India. It is
located 43 km (27 mi) north-east of Somnath, 65 km
(40 mi) south-east of Junagadh and 60 km (37 mi) south-
west of Amreli. It was established in 1965 in the
erstwhile Nawab of Junagarh's private hunting area,
with a total area of 1,410.30 km2 (544.52 sq mi), of which
258.71 km2 (99.89 sq mi) is fully protected as a national
park and 1,151.59 km2 (444.63 sq mi) as wildlife
sanctuary.
 History of Gir national park
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 In the 19th century, the rulers of
Indian princely states used to invite the British
colonists for hunting expeditions. At the end of the
19th century, only about a dozen Asiatic lions were
left in India, all of them in the Gir Forest, which was
part of the Nawab of Junagarh's private hunting
grounds. British viceroys brought the drastic decline
of the lion population in Gir to the attention of the
Nawab of Junagadh, who established the sanctuary.
 Geography
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 Water reserves
 Panorama of the reservoir .The seven major
perennial rivers of the Gir region
are Hiran, Shetrunji, Dhatarvadi, Shingoda, Machhundri
, Ambajal and Raval. The four reservoirs of the area
are at four dams, one each on Hiran, Machhundri,
Raval and Shingoda rivers, including the biggest
reservoir in the area, the Kamleshwar Dam, dubbed
'the lifeline of Gir'.
Flora of GIR National Park
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 More than 400 plant species were recorded in the
survey of Gir forest by Samtapau & Raizada in 1955.
The botany department of M.S. University of Baroda
has revised the count to 507 during their survey.
According to the 1964 forest type classification
by Champion & Sheth, the Gir forest falls under very
dry teak forest" classification.
 Wildlife of GIR National Park
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 The count of 2,375 distinct fauna species of Gir
includes about 38 species of mammals, around 300
species of birds, 37 species of reptiles and more than
2,000 species of insects.[1]
 The carnivores group mainly comprises the
Asiatic lion, Indian leopard, jungle cat, striped hyena
, golden jackal, Bengal fox,[7] Indian gray mongoose,
ruddy mongoose, and honey badger. Asiatic wildcat
and rusty-spotted cat occur, but are rarely seen.
 Asiatic lion

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 The Asiatic lion's habitat is dry scrub land and open
deciduous forest. The lion population increased from
411 individuals in 2010 to 674 in 2020, and all of them
live in or around Gir National Park.
 Lion conservation
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 The Lion Breeding Programme creates and maintains
breeding centres. One such centre has been
established in the Sakkarbaug Zoo at the district
headquarters of Junagadh, which has successfully
bred about 180 lions. A total of 126 pure Asiatic lions
have been given to zoos in India and abroad.
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