#Wildlife_Sanctuary_series
🔆Karlapat Wildlife Sanctuary
Why in news?
✅Six elephants died in just 14 days at Karlapat Wildlife Sanctuary in Odisha’s Kalahandi district.
✅According to the 2018 census the sanctuary had 17 elephants.
✅Vegetation: Dry Deciduous Forest.
✅Fauna: Mammals: Elephant, Leopard, Gaur, Sambar, Barking deer, Indian wolf, Malbar giant squirrel, Pangolin, etc.
✅Birds: Peacock, Hornbill, Red jungle fowl, etc.
✅Reptilians: Mugger, crocodile, monitor lizard etc.
✅Flora: Sal, Bija, Bamboo, medicinal plants, etc.
✅Water Body: Phurlijharan waterfall is located within the sanctuary.
