Kali Tiger Reserve

• The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) recently written to the Chief Wildlife Warden of Karnataka to furnish a status report on an illegal resort in the Castle Rock Wildlife Range of the Kali Tiger Reserve (KTR).

About Kali Tiger Reserve

• Kali Tiger Reserve, also known as Dandeli-Anshi Tiger Reserve is located in Uttara Kannada District of Karnataka.
• It is a part of the Western Ghats.
• The Tiger Reserve comprises of two important protected areas of the region viz.,
  • Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary and Anshi National Park are contiguous to each other and form a single tract of protected area located in biologically sensitive Western Ghats.
• Kali River flows through the tiger reserve.
• Vegetation: Forests are primarily moist deciduous and semi-evergreen, with excellent patches of evergreen forests in the westernmost parts as well as in deep valleys.
• Flora- bintangur, Malabar tamarind, Garcinia morella, more than 80 species of Orchids
• Fauna– tigers, black panthers, elephants, Indian bison, sloth bear, Indian wild boar, bonnet macaque, northern plains gray langur, gray slender loris, barking deer, sambar deer and spotted deer.