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    The document summarizes 7 important national parks in India, providing key details about each. It discusses: 1) Keibul Lamjao National Park in Manipur, the only floating park in the world home to rare brow-antlered deer. 2) Mathikettan Shola National Park in Kerala, located between other forests and home to elephants and rare plants. 3) Satpura National Park in Madhya Pradesh, rich in biodiversity and offering walking safaris. 4) Desert National Park in Rajasthan, covering over 40% sand dunes and home to gazelles, foxes, and bustards.

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    The document summarizes 7 important national parks in India, providing key details about each. It discusses: 1) Keibul Lamjao National Park in Manipur, the only floating park in the world home to rare brow-antlered deer. 2) Mathikettan Shola National Park in Kerala, located between other forests and home to elephants and rare plants. 3) Satpura National Park in Madhya Pradesh, rich in biodiversity and offering walking safaris. 4) Desert National Park in Rajasthan, covering over 40% sand dunes and home to gazelles, foxes, and bustards.

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    The document summarizes 7 important national parks in India, providing key details about each. It discusses: 1) Keibul Lamjao National Park in Manipur, the only floating park in the world home to rare brow-antlered deer. 2) Mathikettan Shola National Park in Kerala, located between other forests and home to elephants and rare plants. 3) Satpura National Park in Madhya Pradesh, rich in biodiversity and offering walking safaris. 4) Desert National Park in Rajasthan, covering over 40% sand dunes and home to gazelles, foxes, and bustards.

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    The document summarizes 7 important national parks in India, providing key details about each. It discusses: 1) Keibul Lamjao National Park in Manipur, the only floating park in the world home to rare brow-antlered deer. 2) Mathikettan Shola National Park in Kerala, located between other forests and home to elephants and rare plants. 3) Satpura National Park in Madhya Pradesh, rich in biodiversity and offering walking safaris. 4) Desert National Park in Rajasthan, covering over 40% sand dunes and home to gazelles, foxes, and bustards.

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    A Few Minutes Series Kerala

    Important Inputs
    • Shola forests are exclusive to the Western
    Date – 27th February 2023 Ghats in South India.
    Click here to watch the following • Mathikettan derives from the Tamil word
    topics on YouTube literally meaning 'mind confuser’ (as the
    local people say that one forgets the path
    7 Important National Parks to
    once he enters into the park).
    Know
    • It is an elephant strip.
    1. Keibul Lamjao National Park, Manipur
    • Located between other reserve forests
    like Eravikulam National Park and
    Pampadam Shola National Park.

    3. Satpura National Park, Madhya Pradesh


    Satpura National Park, Madhya Pradesh

    Important Inputs
    • Only floating park in the world.
    • Located in Manipur
    • An integral part of Loktak Lake
    • To protect and conserve the deer now Important Inputs
    called Eld's deer's subspecies brow-
    • Only national park in India, where one
    antlered deer or Sangai in Meitei
    can go on a walking safari
    language
    • Located in the Narmadapuram District of
    • The park is a swamp with floating mass
    MP, taking name from the Satpura range,
    of vegetation created by accrual of
    part of a unique central Indian highland
    organic garbage and biomass with soil
    ecosystem
    particles that has been thickened into a
    solid form called phumdis. • Extremely rich in biodiversity. The
    animals include leopard, sambar, chital,
    2. Mathikettan Shola National Park, Kerala Indian muntjac, nilgai, four-horned
    antelope, Chinkara, wild boar, bear, black
    buck, fox, porcupine, flying squirrel,
    mouse deer, and Indian giant squirrel.
    • There are a variety of birds like Hornbills
    and peafowl.
    Mathikettan Shola National Park,
    • The flora consists of mainly sal, teak, Hemis National Park, Ladakh
    tendu, Phyllanthus emblica, mahua, bel, Important Inputs
    bamboo, and grasses and medicinal
    • It is largest National park in India
    plants.
    • A high-altitude national park in Ladakh
    4. Desert National Park, Rajasthan with snow leopards
    • It has Snow Leopards, Argali (Great
    Tibetan Sheep), Bharal (Blue Sheep),
    Shapu (Ladakhi Urial), Asiatic ibex,
    Tibetan wolf, the Eurasian brown bear
    (endangered in India), the Red Fox,
    Himalayan marmot, mountain weasel
    and the Himalayan mouse hare
    • Birds include Golden Eagle,
    Lammergeier vulture, Himalayan griffon
    vulture, brown accentor, robin accentor,
    Tickell's leaf warbler, streaked rosefinch,
    Desert National Park, Rajasthan black-winged snowfinch, chukar, Blyth's
    swift, red-billed chough, Himalayan
    Important Inputs
    snowcock, and the fire-fronted serin
    • One of the largest national parks, with
    Sand dunes covering more than 40% of 6. Khangchendzonga National Park, Sikkim
    the Park.
    • The Chinkara or Indian Gazelle (Gazella
    bennettii) is a common antelope of this
    region along with desert fox, wolf and
    desert cat.
    • Birdlife includes sandgrouse, partridges,
    bee-eaters, larks, and shrikes, demoiselle
    crane, MacQueen's bustard and the great
    Indian bustard, a critically endangered Khangchendzonga National Park, Sikkim
    species found only in India.

    5. Hemis National Park, Ladakh


    Important Inputs
    • Part of UNESCO World Heritage Sites,
    becoming the first "Mixed Heritage" site
    of India.
    • Part of UNESCO Man and the Biosphere
    Programme.
    • Mount Kangchenjunga is the third-
    highest peak in the world at 8,586 metres
    • Home of Lepcha tribal settlements. Important Inputs
    • It is also home to musk deer, Indian • It was India's first Marine Wildlife
    leopard, snow leopard, Himalayan tahr, Sanctuary and first marine national park.
    dhole, sloth bear, viverrids, Himalayan • It has 42 islands on the Jamnagar coast
    black bear, red panda, Tibetan wild ass, with most surrounded by reefs.
    Himalayan blue sheep, mainland serow,
    • This fragile ecosystem includes 70 species
    goral and takin, rat snake and Russell's
    of sponges, 52 species of Coral.
    viper.
    • As the sea recedes, the sea creatures are
    • Birds include blood pheasant, satyr
    exposed to the harsh sunlight before they
    tragopan, osprey, Himalayan griffon,
    retreat to deeper waters or take cover.
    lammergeier, Western tragopan, green
    pigeon, Tibetan snowcock, snow pigeon, • The western reef heron (dark morphed)
    impeyan pheasant, Asian emerald visits the Narara coasts during low tide to
    cuckoo, sunbird and eagle. pick on the fishes and crustaceans hiding
    beneath the rocks and reefs.
    • A new species of bird named Himalayan
    thrush has been found in 2016.

    7. Marine National Park, Gulf of Kutch

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