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8 unusual facts about Western ghats


A.J.T. Johnsingh

He was the first Indian environmentalist to study the threat caused to the Western Ghats.

Cane turtle

The Cochin forest cane turtle (Vijayachelys silvatica), also known as Kavalai forest turtle, forest cane turtle or simply cane turtle, is a rare turtle from the Western Ghats of India.

Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary

Average annual rainfall is only 500 mm, spread over about 48 days, because it is in the rain shadow region of the southern Western Ghats.

Cloud ear fungus

Auricularia polytricha is widely distributed in moist-deciduous to wet evergreen forests of the Western Ghats, Kerala, India.

Gautala Autramghat Sanctuary

It lies in the Satmala and Ajantha hill ranges of the Western Ghats, and administratively is in Aurangabad District and Jalgaon District.

Ghat Roads

Ghat Roads are the name of the access routes into the mountainous Western and Eastern Ghats mountain ranges of the Indian Subcontinent.

Malaysian moon moth

The Malaysian moon moth ranges from Malaysia, to Sumatra, Java, the Philippines, and the surrounding region in Southeast Asia and South Asia including a population in the Western Ghats.

Rattus satarae

It is native to the northern Western Ghats in India where it is split between three regions, Satara in Maharashtra, the Nilgiri mountains in Tamil Nadu and Kodagu district in Karnataka.


6-5=2

On 28 October 2010, 6 friends - Ramesh (boTi), Naveen, Kumar (tigNe), Prakash (jollu), Deepa, and Soumya - hailing from Mandya and Bangalore plan for a trek to an undisclosed mountain in Western ghats.

Ashtamudi Lake

The Kallada river, which originates near Ponmudi from the Kulathupuzha hills Western Ghats in Thiruvananthapuram District, is formed by the confluence of three rivers, viz., Kulathupuzha, Chenthurnipuzha, and Kalthuruthipuzha, and after traversing a distance of about 121 km (75 mi) through virgin forests finally debouches into the Ashtamudi wetland at Neendakara (a fishing harbour) near Kollam as it enters the Lakshadweep Sea, part of the Arabian Sea.

Blue-throated Blue Flycatcher

The Blue-Throated Flycatcher is found much of the Indian Subcontinent, all through the Himalayas, the plains and Western Ghats of India in the cold months, and also extends eastwards into Bangladesh, and to Arakan and the Tenasserim Hills in Myanmar.

Brown palm civet

The brown palm civet's distribution extends from the southern tip of Western Ghats in Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve to Castle Rock in Goa to the north.

Calotes aurantolabium

The Orange-lipped Forest Lizard (Calotes aurantolabium) is an agamid lizard found in the forests of the southern Western Ghats and is currently known from the Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve.

Calotes calotes

The Common Green Forest Lizard (Calotes calotes) is an agamid lizard found in the forests of the Western Ghats and the Shevaroy Hills in India, and Sri Lanka.

Carnatic region

Properly the name is, in fact, applicable only to the country of the Kanarese extending between the Eastern and Western Ghats, over an irregular area narrowing northwards, from Palghat in the south to Gulbarga,Bidar in the north, and including Mysore.

Cremnoconchus

The genus Cremnoconchus is endemic to the Northwestern Ghats of India.

Crimson-fronted Barbet

The Malabar Barbet endemic to the Western Ghats of India used to be treated as a subspecies of this species.

Eranthemum roseum

Eranthemum roseum, also known as blue eranthemum, rosy eranthemum (Marathi: Dasmuli, दसमुळी; Jangali aboli, जंगली अबोली ) is a native of the Western Ghats of India.

Indrella ampulla

This species occurs in the Western Ghats of India, specifically on the wetter western slopes of the Wynaad, Nilgiri, and Anaimalai Hills, at moderate elevations (3000 ft).

Little Flower Public School

Field visits are organised for all classes, including to Kanyakumari, Kerala, Madurai, Vishakapatnam, Mekedatu, Western Ghats, Goa, Ooty, Kodaikanal, Hampi and Hyderabad.

Meenachil

The river Meenachil, also known as Kavanar, originates at vagamon in the Western Ghats of Kerala, flows westward through Erattupetta, Palai, Kidangoor, Ettumanoor and Kottayam.

Oligodon venustus

Oligodon venustus, commonly known as Jerdon's Kukri Snake, is a species of snake found in the Western Ghats of India (south of Goa).

Pygmy elephant

Recent claims have been made from the southern end of the Western Ghats (in the southern Indian state of Kerala) concerning a dwarf species of elephant called "Kallana," a team of elephant experts have not yet found evidence of their existence in the area.

Sri Lankan jackal

On the Asian mainland, the Sri Lankan jackal occurs in the whole southern part of the Indian peninsula, from Thana near Bombay in the northwest southwards through the Western Ghats, Mysore, the Eastern Ghats and Mandura.

Stylidium subg. Andersonia

In 2010, Sachin A. Punekar and P. Lakshminarasimhan published the new species S. darwinii from Western Ghats of Karnataka, India.

Teretrurus

Found in southern India in Wynaad, Travancore (in Nalumukku at 1,350 m elevation and Oothu at 1,300 m), the Manimuthar Hills (in the Western Ghats of the Tinnevelly district) and Nyamakad (Western Ghats of the Kerala Munar Hills at 2,200 m).

Vagamon

Vagamon is at the fringe of the Western Ghats and the foot hills on its lower side reach up to Teekoy with a gradual descent.

Warli painting

Warli painting is a tribal art mostly done by Adivasi from North Sahyadri Range in India (Dahanu, Talasari, Jawhar, Palghar, Mokhada, and Vikramgadh).


see also

Ananth Hegde Ashisara

Ananth Hegde Ashisara is an environmentalist from Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka, India and Chairman, Western Ghats Task Force.

Aralvaimozhi

Aralvaimozhi is one of the two passes through the Western Ghats which lead to the West and many of the invasions faced by the Chera and the successor kingdoms came via the ghat.

Athirappilly

This area is the only place in the Western Ghats where four endangered Hornbill species are seen.

C. nigrescens

Calliophis nigrescens, the black coral snake, a venomous snake species found in the Western Ghats of India

H. aurantiaca

Hylarana aurantiaca, the golden frog, a frog species endemic to Sri Lanka and the Western Ghats of India

Kollamkondan

This Maravar palayam was located near Rajapalayam, at the foot of the Western Ghats, in the former Tirunelveli province of the Nayak dynasty of Madura.

Moothedam

It is situated on the foothills of Western Ghats near to Mukurthi National Park in Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu.

Nevromus austroindicus

It was formally described in 2012 on the basis of specimens from the Karnataka Western Ghats of Kottigehara with some specimens also obtained from near Sampaje.

Northern palm squirrel

The southern boundary on the Western Ghats side clearly extends to localities including Dhawar and Mysore, in Karnataka.

Nyctibatrachus poocha

"Night frogs (Nyctibatrachus), which are exclusively seen in Western Ghats, have unique breeding behaviour. These frogs successfully complete their breeding without any physical contact between male and female," Biju told the Press Trust of India.

Sivagiri, Tirunelveli

This is one of the three Palayams and is located in the Sivagiri taluk of Tirunelveli, on the slopes of the Western Ghats.

Tiruppur district

Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary is spread over at the altitude of 1400 meters in the Western Ghats area of Pollachi, Valparai and Udumalaipettai.