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The Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve was created in 1988 by combining Kalakad Wildlife Sanctuary (251 km 2) and Mundanthurai Wildlife Sanctuary (567 km 2), both established in 1962. Notification of 77 km 2 of parts of Veerapuli and Kilamalai Reserve Forests in adjacent Kanyakumari district , added to the reserve in April 1996, is pending.
Kalakad is surrounded on three sides by the Western Ghats. The forest area is protected as KMTR Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve. It is home to many endangered animals such as lion-tailed macaque etc. It is a tiger sanctuary also, though differing counts are put forward by the government about the correct number of tigers.
Located between elevations ranging from 1,000 to 1,500 metres, the Manjolai area is set deep within the Western Ghats within the Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve in the Tirunelveli District. Located on top of the Manimuthar dam and the Manimuthar waterfalls, the Manjolai area comprises tea plantations, small settlements around the tea ...
The river begins in the dense forest on a mountain peak 1,300 metres (4,300 ft) above sea level in Ex-Singampatti Zamindari, Ambasamudram taluk and flows 9 kilometres (6 mi) though small cataracts until it reaches the Tambaraparani River near Kallidaikurichi. The tributaries of the Manimuthar are the Keezha River and the Varattar River.
The Naraikadu forest or "grey jungle", surrounded by the Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, is privately owned by the Dhonavur Fellowship. This community has restored and protected the area so well that it is one of the best preserved forest tracts in the whole Ashambu Hills.
The Travel and Tourism department of Himachal Pradesh has preserved the park in its natural form. [4] Simbalbara Forest Rest House is connected from Puruwala and provides views of the valley. [citation needed] Tiger Goral, Sambhar and Chittal are the common animals found here. There are walking trails also in the adjoining forests. [5]
As industry took over the coastline, studies chronicled wholesale mangrove destruction — “bulldozed or burnt down, leaving no trace,” H.S. Singh, Gujarat’s chief forest conservator, told India’s Financial Express in 2007 — and dredging that filled the creeks.
This Pine forest was the reason behind the name of the region. In Lower Mahasu Pahari the local language of the region, the Pine tree's seeds (Coulter pines) are known as Kaintha, they were in abundance there because of the Pine forest. That's why the local people in old times named the area as Kainthu which by the time changed to Kaithu.