Anamalai Tiger Reserve

• A committee headed by Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) field director visited the enclosure at the Manthirimattam reserve forest area of the Manamobolly forest range to assess the progress of the rewilding of a sub-adult tiger.

ABOUT ANAMALAI TIGER RESERVE

• It is carved out of the Tamil Nadu portion of the Anamalais.
• The Tiger Reserve falls in four revenue taluks namely; Pollachi, and Valparai of Coimbatore district and Udumalpet of Tiruppur District and Kodaikanal taluk in Dindigul district in the State of Tamilnadu.
• The total area of the Tiger Reserve is 59 sq.km.
• It lies South of the Palakkad gap in the Southern Western Ghats.
• It is surrounded by Parambikulum Tiger Reserve on the East, Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary and Eravikulum National Park on the South Western side.
• The Anamalai Tiger Reserve falls within the Western Ghats mountain chain of South West India, a region designated as one of 25 Global Biodiversity Hotspots.
• The biogeographical classification of the country includes Western Ghats which are considered as one of eight “hottest hot spots”.
• The Tiger Reserve supports diverse habitat types Wet evergreen forests, semi evergreen forests, moist deciduous, dry deciduous, dry thorn and shola forests.
  • Man-made teak plantations of exotics like eucalyptus, wattle, pines are also found.
• Fauna– it supports 120 species of reptiles, 300 species of birds and 80 species of mammals.
  • Asiatic elephant, Sambar, Spotted deer, Barking deer, Mouse deer, Gaur, Nilgiri tahr, Tiger, etc.
• It supports 6 indigenous people Malasar, Malai malasars, Kadars, Eravallars, Pulayars and Muduvars.