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Ananth Hegde Ashisara is an environmentalist from Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka, India and Chairman, Western Ghats Task Force.
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.
This area is the only place in the Western Ghats where four endangered Hornbill species are seen.
Calliophis nigrescens, the black coral snake, a venomous snake species found in the Western Ghats of India
The misapplication of the name Carnatic was carried by the British a step further than by the Mahommedans, it being confined by them to the country below the Ghats, Mysore not being included.
For example, in George Town, Penang in Malaysia, the label "Ghaut" is used to identify the extensions of those streets which formerly ended in ghats before reclamation of the quayside (e.g., Church St Ghaut - in Malay Gat Lebuh Gereja - is the name of the extension of Church St beyond where the street used to descend to the water via a ghat).
Hylarana aurantiaca, the golden frog, a frog species endemic to Sri Lanka and the Western Ghats of India
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.
It is situated on the foothills of Western Ghats near to Mukurthi National Park in Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu.
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.
The ghats of the Nilgiris lead to the plains of Malabar and Coimbatore.
Advantage has been taken of this gap by the north-west line of the Southern Railway which passes up in through the ghats on its way to Mumbai.
The southern boundary on the Western Ghats side clearly extends to localities including Dhawar and Mysore, in Karnataka.
"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.
Pudipalli was a popular film location for Tollywood in 1990s and 1980s due to its picturesque location along the eastern ghats on the banks of the river Godavari.
This is one of the three Palayams and is located in the Sivagiri taluk of Tirunelveli, on the slopes of the Western Ghats.
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).
Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary is spread over at the altitude of 1400 meters in the Western Ghats area of Pollachi, Valparai and Udumalaipettai.
Also the twin cities of Kolkata and Howrah are connected by local water ferries through the extensive ghats like Fairlie Ghat, Howrah Ghat, Shibpur Ghat, Prinsep Ghat, Cossipore Ghat, etc.
This species was discovered in the Eastern Ghats near Nellore by T C Jerdon who received a specimen from a local hunter.