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The tree species found in Idukki wildlife sanctuary include ceylon ironwood, thampakam (Hopea parviflora), large-flowered bay tree, wild jack (Artocarpus hirsutus), pali (Palaquium ellipticum), malampunna (Calophyllum polyanthum), Vernonia arborea, karuva (Cinnamomum verum), teak, Indian rosewood, vella maruthu (Terminalia paniculata), Grewia tiliifolia and Malabar kino.
Vegetation types. Eastern Kerala's windward mountains shelter tropical moist forests and tropical dry forests which are generally characteristic of the wider Western Ghats: crowns of giant sonokeling (binomial nomenclature: Dalbergia latifolia — Indian rosewood), anjili (Artocarpus hirsuta), mullumurikku (Erythrina), Cassia, and other trees dominate the canopies of large tracts of virgin forest.
The South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests is an ecoregion in the Western Ghats of southern India with tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests.This biome covers the Nilgiri Hills between elevation of 250 and 1,000 m (820 and 3,280 ft) in Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu states.
The Database on Rare, Endangered and Threatened plants of Kerala is a red list compiled by The Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI), Peechi, Kerala, with information from various institutions and scientists. It is a list of plants that are presently threatened present in Kerala. [1]
The Kerala government also established 45 relief camps in Wayanad, providing shelter to over 4,000 people, while the state health department set up a control room to offer emergency assistance. [48] Kerala's health minister, Veena George , stated that at least 1,500 rescue personnel, including forensic surgeons, were deployed.
Kerala Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency; Kerala Sahitya Akademi; Kerala State Science and Technology Museum; KSCSTE [6] The Kerala State Higher Education Council (KSHEC), Science and Technology Museum Campus, Vikas Bhavan PO, Thiruvananthapuram [7] Kerala State Information Technology Mission [8] Kerala State Institute of Children's ...
In 1983, when drought struck Thrissur city, then Minister M.P.Gangadharan with help of Kerala Water Resources Department cleaned the pond over a time of one month. In 1985, a water supply system was constructed by spending Rs 23 lakhs form Vadakkechira pond to supply water to Thekkinkadu Maidan and Swaraj Round, Thrissur by Kerala Water Resources Department.
Boundary mapping has revealed that the total area of Myristica swamps in Kerala is about 1.5 km2 which hardly make up 0.004% of the total land area of Kerala (38,864 km2) and 0.014% of the total forest area of Kerala (11,126 km2). The swamps in Karnataka are located at about 300m altitude, the swamps in Kerala are at an altitude of 200m.