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The Country, Bountiful.......
Which is the only country that has a mountain peak high over 8000 metres, and a coastline of more than 7000 kilometres?
Which is the country that receives about 100 millimetres (4 inches) of annual rainfall at one end, and around 11000 mm (433 ") on the other end?
Which is the nation that has over 4500 - 5000 years of cultural history and over 500 protected areas and a natural heritage of over 3000 tigers and over 12000 elephants roaming free in its wild zones?
Which is the country that has both a cold desert and a hot desert environment, both being extent over tens of thousand square kilometres in size?
Which is the country that has both scorching, hot sandy deserts, and a misty, wet and en tropical dense rain forest ecosystems?
Which is the only country where four major religions of the world were born, and continues to influence people and their lifestyles?
Which is the country that gave the world the idea of zero and infinity?
(No prizes for guessing the answers right) But to state the obvious, for all the questions above there is only one answer - INDIA or BHARAT (Official Name in Hindi) or Hindu-sthan (as known to the neighbouring arabs, persians, and the west and central asians)
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Wildlife and Habitats in a Nutshell
The wildlife of India is perhaps, more amazing in its diversity than its people. In India there are 504 wildlife sanctuaries and 92 National Parks, 13 Biosphere reserves, 26 world heritage sites out of which, 9 are natural heritage sites.
20 per cent of the Indian land mass is under forest cover. A land unit, having a green cover of more than 10 per cent (like in open and scrub vegetation type) and 40 per cent (like in mixed-dense vegetation type) is considered a forest: (FSI, Dehradun).
Note: The vegetation includes grass lands, open scrub, and plantation forests.
Wildlife found in India
Fauna (Major faunal life forms found in India)
South Indian Elephant,* Asiatic Lion,* Royal Bengal Tiger,* Leopard, Black Panther,* Himalayan Brown Bear,* Sloth Bear, Snow Leopard,* Clouded Leopard,* Jungle Cat, Malabar Palm Civet,* One-Horned Rhinocerous,* Hoolock Gibbon,* Binturong,* Indian Gaur (Bison), Water Buffalo,* Lion-Tailed Macaque,* Nilgiri Langur,* Common Black-Faced (Hanuman) Langur, Hangul (Kashmir Stag),* Musk Deer, Sambar, Black Buck, Spotted Deer, Mouse Deer, Niligiri Thar (Ibex),* Jackal, Wild Dogs, Fox, Wolf,* Wild Boar etc.
(Names of animals suffixed by a asterisk* mark indicates their threatened status. These species, are either critically endangered or vulnerable at this point of time.)
Flora (Common Trees found in India)
Jack-Fruit tree, Artocarpus heterophyllus; Silk Cotton Tree, Bombax ceiba; Flame of the Forest, Butea monospermia; Shisham, Dalbergia latifolia; Indian Coral Tree, Erythrina indica; Banyan Tree, Ficus bengalensis (National Tree); The Peepal Tree, Ficus religiosa; Mahwa Tree, Madhuca Indica; The Mango tree, Mangifera indica; Iron wood tree, Memycylon umbellatum; Jamun Tree, Syzygium cumini; The Tamarind Tree, Tamarindus indica; Ashok Tree, Plyalthia longifolia etc.
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