INDIA  BIOSPHERE RESERVES AND WILDLIFE SANCTURIES

INDIA BIOSPHERE RESERVES AND WILDLIFE SANCTURIES Cold desert Himachal Pradesh Punjab Chandigarh U arakhand Nanda Devi Haryana Delhi Rajasthan U ar Pradesh Bihar Sikkim kanjanjunga Meghalaya Nokrek Assam Manas Arunachal pradesh Dihand-Dibang Dibru - Saikhowa Nagaland Manipur Tripura Mizoram Jharkhand Achanakmar- Amarkantak West Bengal Sunderban Chha sgarh Madhya Pradesh Panna Pachmarhi Rann of Kutch Gujarat Odisha Simlipal Telangana Andra Pradesh Seshachalam Maharashtra Dadra and Nagar Haveli Goa Karnataka Puducherry Tamil Nadu Nilgiri Kerala Agasthyamalai Gulf of Mannar Great Nicobar Lakshadweep (India) Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India) Sri Lanka Indian Ocean Bay of Bengal Arabian Sea Diu Daman Jammu & Kashmir Ladakh Bandipur Gir Kanha Dachigam Corbet Kaziranga Mudumalai Etumagaram Chandra Prabha Sariska Pulicat P Ve Ve Ve V e V e e V e Ve V e e V e e V e Ve e V e e V e e V e V e V e V e V e V e V e V e V e V e V e e Point Calimere Salim Ali Chilka Lake Dwaraka Biosphere Reserves World Network of Biosphere Reserves (UNESCO) Marine Park Na onal Park Wild Life Sancturies Bird Sancturies Rajaji Gobind Sagar Rajgir Rameshwaram Not to Scale Ranthambore Ranganathi u Climate and Natural Vegetation of India small trees. In altitude from to 1800m, chir is the most common tree. From to 3000m is covered with semi temperate coniferous forests. Alpine Forest It occurs all along the Himalayas with above m altitude. These are purely having coniferous trees. Oak, silver fir, pine and juniper are the main trees of these forests. The eastern parts of Himalayas has large extent of these forests. Mangrove Forest These forests occur in and around the deltas, estuaries and creeks prone to tidal influences and as such are also known as delta or swamp forests. The delta of the Ganga-Brahmaputra has the largest tidal forest. These are also known as Sundarbans forest . The deltas of Mahanadi, Godavari and Krishna rivers are also known for tidal forests .