Protected

Name Location Rivers Details Note

Areas

1.Mudumalai
Wildlife
Sanctuary
Forest Type:
(Also Tiger
Moist
Reserve)
Evergreen, Semi-
Evergreen,
2.Wyanad
Thorn, Savannah
Wildlife
Woodland,
Sanctuary 
Sholas and
Grassland
Bhavani, Moyar, 3.Bandipur
Parts of
Kabini (tribuatri National Park
Tamil Endemic
es of Cauvery), (Also Tiger
1 Nilgiri Nadu, Flora: Vanda, World Natural Ye
Chaliyar, Reserve),
Kerala, Liparis, Heritage Site s
Punampuzha,
Karnataka Bulbophyllum,
etc.
Spiranthes , 4.Nagarhole
Thrixspermum National Park
(Also Tiger
Reserve),
Endemic
Fauna: Nilgiri
tahr, Nilgiri 5.Mukurthi
langur, Lion – National Park
tailed macaque
6. Silent
Valley

2 Nanda Devi Uttarakhan Rishi Ganga Forest Type: 1. Nanda Devi located within Ye
d mixed National park the Western s
temperate and Himalayas
subalpine 2. Valley of Endemic Bird
Flowers Area (EBA)
National Park
Endemic Flora:
Salep Orchid,
Silver weed, World Natural
Fairy Heritage Site
candelabra,
Fairy Primrose

Endemic
fauna: Himalaya
n tahr, Brown
bear, Koklas
pheasant
 Forest
Type: Evergreen
and semi-
evergreen
deciduous
forests

Endemic
Flora: Grand
Meghalaya rasamala, White
Ganol, Dareng meranti, Lali, Nokrek Ye
3 Nokrek (part of
and Simsang Chempaka, Wild National Park s
Garo Hills)
lemon

Endemic
Fauna: Stump
tailed macaque,
Pig-tailed
macaque, Giant
flying squirrel

Tropical and
Sub-tropical
Moist Broad-
leafed Forest

Endemic
Flora: Screw
Anadaman pine, Nipa palm,
Ceylon iron Ye
4 Great Nicobar & Nicobar
wood s
Islands

Endemic Fauna:
Crab-eating
macaque,
Nicobar
megapode

5 Gulf of Mannar Tamil Nadu  Tropical Dry Gulf of First marine Ye

(Indian Broad-leafed Mannar Biosphere s
part of Gulf forest, seaweed Marine Reserve in
of Mannar) communities, National Park India
sea grass  
communities,
coral reefs, salt
Falls within the
marshes and
Indo-Malayan
mangrove
realm
forests.
Endemic
 Flora: Endemic
Flora : Morning
glory, Jatropha,
Halophila grass

Endemic
Fauna:  Sea
Cow, Sea
Anemone, Sea
fans

Forest types:
semi-evergreen
forests mixed
moist and dry
deciduous
forests, Swamp
Forest, Cane and
bamboo brakes
Wildlife
Endemic Sanctuary
Flora: Catechu National Park
World Natural
6 Manas Assam Manas-Beki tree, Sissoo, No
Heritage site
White siris
Tiger Reserve

Endemic Fauna:
Pygmy hog,
Golden lungur ,
Assam roofed
turtle

7 Sunderbans West Meghna Tidal Swamp 1.Sundarban World Natural Ye

Bengal Forests, Saline National Heritage Site s
Water Type Park
Mixed Forests, /Sundarban
Brackish Water tiger Reserve
Type Mixed
Forests, Palm 2.Sajnekhali
Swamp Type Wildlife
Sanctuary
Endemic
Flora: Sundari, 3.Lothian
Passur, Nypa Wildlife
Sanctuary
Endemic
Fauna: Bengal 4.Haliday
tiger, Bengal Wildlife
monitor lizard, Sanctuary
Salvator lizard
  

1.Similipal
Endemic Flora: Tiger Reserve
Coix grass
2.Hadgarh
Budhabalanga, The biosphere
Wildlife
Palpala Endemic reserve has the
Sanctuary   Ye
8 Simplipal Odisha Bhandan, Fauna: Red largest zone of
s
Kharkai River breasted Sal in all of
and Deo falconet, Slender 3.Kuldiha India.
billed scimitar Wildlife
babbler, Ruddy Sanctuary
mongoose

Forest Type:
semi wet
evergreen
forests, tropical
moist deciduous
forest, bamboo,
swamp forests,
cane brakes and
grasslands.

1. Dibru-
Endemic Flora: Saikhowa
Rauvolfia National Park
(Sarpagandhi), (was declared
Dibru,
9 Dibru-Saikhowa Assam Benteak, wildlife No
Bramhaputra
Livistona sanctuary in
(orchid) 1986)

Endemic
Fauna: White
winged wood
duck, Hollock-
gibbon, Wild
buffalo

1 Dehang-Dibang Arunachal Dehang, sub-tropical 1. Mouling No

0 Pradesh Debang and broad-leaved, National Park
their tributaries sub-tropical
pine, temperate 2. Dibang
broad-leaved, Wildlife
temperate Sanctuary
conifer, sub-
 alphine woody
shrub, alpine
meadow
(monton),
bamboo brakes
and grassland.

Endemic
Flora: Tree fern,
Begonia, Lady’s
slipper orchid

Endemic
Fauna: Red
panda,
Himalayan black
bear, Green pit
viper, Takin

moist
deciduous, dry 1.Bori Pachmarhi BR
deciduous, Sanctuary area is often
central Indian recognized
sub tropical hill 2.Pachmarhi as “Genetic
forest. Sanctuary Express
Highway” linki
ng two
Endemic 3. Satpura biological hot
1 Madhya Flora : Sal tree, National Park spots of the Ye
Panchmarhi Denwa Selaginella fern,
1 Pradesh country viz. s
Palimorpha Eastern
These
bamboo Himalayas and
altogether
has also been Western
Endemic notified Ghats, also as
Fauna: Barasing as Satpura confluence of
a, Wild buffalo, Tiger Reserve northern and
Red jungle fowl  southern type
of vegetation.

1 Khangchendzon Sikkim Teesta Forest Kanchenjung India’s first Ye

2 ga Type: broad a National Mixed Heritage s
leaved hill Park Site
forest,
Himalayan wet
temperate
forest,temperat
e broad leaved
forest, mixed
coniferous
forest, sub-
alpine a forests
and dry alpine
forest
 Endemic
Flora: Anemone,
Uvaria, Sikkim
Rhododendron,
Sikkim Mahonia

Endemic
Fauna: Tibetan
sheep, Musk
deer, Monal
pheasant, Snow
patridge

1.Neyyar
Forest Wildlife
Types: thorn, Sanctuary
moist deciduous
and semi- 2.Peppara
evergreens Wildlife
sanctuary
World Natural
Endemic
Heritage Site
Flora: Rudraksha 3.Shendumey
 
tree, Black wildlife
plums, Gaub Sanctuary
1 Kerala, Ye
Agasthyamalai Tambraparani tree, Wild Part of
3 Tamil Nadu s
dhaman “Hottest
4. Kalakad biodiversity
Mundanthura hotspots”
Endemic i Tiger
Fauna: Lion- Reserve.
tailed macaque,
Slender loris,
Great pied  
hornbill
 

1 Achanakamar- Chhattisgar Narmada, Forest

4 Amarkantak h Johilla and Type: Tropical
Sone, Ama deciduous
Nallah vegetation.
Tropical Moist
Deciduous and
Southern Dry
Mixed
Deciduous
forests
Several
thallophyte,
bryophyte,
pteridophyte,
 gymnosperm,
and angiosperm
species found.

Fauna: Tigers,
panthers,
Chitals,
blackbuck, giant
squirrels etc

Two major
ecosystems: Gre
at Rann of
Kachchh (GRK)
and Little Rann
of Kachchh (LRK)

mixed scrub,
thorn, savannah 1.Kachchh
in GRK Desert
Sanctuary

Mangroves  in 2.Wild Ass

Luni, Rupen, the eastern Sanctuary
1 West Banas border of Banni
Kachchh Gujarat (for No
5 drains into the grassland, inside conservation
area the GRK a place of wild ass)
locally known as
Shrawan
Kavadia  

Fauna: Indian
wild ass, Greater
and Lesser
Flamingos

1 Cold Desert Himachal Pin, Flora: Herbs, 1. Pin Valley No

6 Pradesh Chandrabhaga, shrub species National Park
Spiti
2. Kibber
Fauna: Tibetan
Wildlife
gazzle, red fox,
Sanctuary
weasel,
lammergeyer,
golden eagle, 3. Chandratal
snow cock, snow Wildlife
leopard, brown Santuary
and black
bear,ibex etc
4. Sarchu
Wildlife
 Sanctuary

Forest
type: Both dry
and Moist
deciduous Type 1. Sri
Venkateswar
Endemic Flora: a National
Red Sanders and Park
1 Seshachalam Andhra Slender Loris
2. Sri No
7 Hills Pradesh
Venkateshwa
Fauna:
ra wildlife
Sanctuary
Jungle cat, Great
Mouse Deer,
golden Gekos

1 Panna Madhya Ken Vegetation 1.Panna

8 Pradesh types: Southern National
Tropical Dry Park/Panna
Deciduous Dry Tiger Reserve
Teak Forest,
Northern 2.Gangau
Tropical Dry Wildlife
Deciduous Sanctuary
Mixed Forest,
Dry Deciduous
3. Ken-
Panna
Gharial
represents the
Wildlife
northern
sanctuary
boundary of the
(dedicated to
natural
breeding
distribution of
programs and
teak, and the
proper
eastern limits of
housing
teak-kardhai
of Gharial
mixed forests.

Fauna:Tiger,
chinkara, , tree
shrew, long
snouted
crocodile,
mugger