#Gangotri_National_Park
#National_park_series
▪️Gangotri National Park
🔸Gangotri National Park was established in 1989 and is situated in Uttarkashi, Uttrakhand, in the upper catchment of Bhagirathi River.
🔸Gaumukh at Gangotri glacier, the origin of river Ganga, is located inside the park.
🔸The park area forms a viable continuity between Govind National Park and Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary.
🔸Flora: The park is enveloped by dense coniferous forests that are mostly temperate. Chirpine, deodar, fir, spruce, oak and rhododendron are the common vegetation.
🔸Fauna: Various rare and endangered species like bharal or blue sheep, black bear, brown bear, himalayan monal, himalayan snowcock, himalayan tahr, musk deer and snow leopard are found in the park.
#Jim_Corbett_National_Park
#National_Park_series
▪️Jim Corbett National Park
🔸Oldest NP in India, established in 1936 as Hailey National Park to protect
the endangered Bengal Tiger.
🔸 It is located in Nainital district and Pauri
Garhwal district of Uttarakhand .
🔸Named after Jim Corbett, well known hunter
🔸 The park was the first to come under the Project Tiger initiative.
🔸 Ramganga river flows through the National park
🔸The core area forms the Jim Corbett National Park while the buffer contains reserve forests as well as the Sonanadi Wildlife Sanctuary
#Valley_of_Flowers_National_Park
#National_Park_series
▪️Valley of Flowers National Park
Valley of Flowers National Park is an Indian national park, located in
North Chamoli, in the state of Uttarakhand.
▪️3352 to 3658 meters above sea level
▪️known for Its Meadows of endemic alpine flowers and the variety of flora.
▪️Representative of the Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows eco-region.
▪️The rich diversity of species reflects the valley's location within a transition zone between the Zanskar and Great Himalayas ranges to the north and south, respectively, and between the Eastern Himalaya and Western Himalaya flora
▪️Highest point in the national park beng Gauri parbat
▪️Pushpawati River
#Rajaji_National_Park
#National_Park_series
▪️ Rajaji National Park
▪️Rajaji National Park:
-Estd -1983
-Located in Shivalik Mountain ranges Uttarakhand
-Fauna- Tigers & Elaphants
▪️three wildlife sanctuaries in the area namely, Chilla, Motichur
and Rajaji sanctuaries were merged into one.
▪️three districts of Uttarakhand: Haridwar, Dehradun and Pauri
Garhwal.
Asian elep
Temporal
▪️The Ganga and Song rivers flow through the park.
Pecene
▪️ know as Asian elephant ,Bengal tiger, ,Himalayan black bear
▪️In 2015, Rajaji National Park was notified as a tiger reserve by the central government.
