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Indian Wildlife Sanctuaries - Karnataka Nagarhole National Park and the Nagarhole National Park in Karnataka has
a unique feature; it shares its boundary with
the Bandipur National Park. Together these two
form a segment of the Mudumalai Sanctuary of Tamil
Nadu and also a fraction of the Wayanad Reserve
of Kerala. The two are separated from each other
by the reservoir-dam on the Kanbi River located
south of the park in the Karnataka Nagarhole National Park. Wildlife Sanctuaries in Karnataka and the Nagarhole National Park
in Karnataka measures a good 874 Sq Km in area
and is an excellent tourist attraction. Karnataka Wildlife Sanctuaries and the Nagarhole
National Park in Karnataka was deemed a Sanctuary
in the year 1955 and was finally awarded the status
of a National Park in the year 1975 in the Wildlife Sanctuaries in Karnataka. The park
authorities also organize small scale safaris
for visitors. Wildlife Sanctuaries in India and the Nagarhole National Park in Karnataka
has, of late, been renamed as the rajiv Gandhi
national Park in the Karnataka Nagarhole National Park in the Karnataka Wildlife Sanctuaries and Wildlife Sanctuaries in India.
Karnataka Wildlife Sanctuaries and the Nagarhole National Park in Karnataka derives
its name from the two Kannada works “nagar”
and “hole”. The former translates as
‘snake’ and the latter as ‘stream’.
The name derives from the presence of several
serpentine brooks and streams that wind their
way through the Nagarhole National Park in Karnataka.
The Nagarhole National Park in Karnataka has a
rich imperial background attached to it too. Until
a long time, the Nagarhole National Park in Karnataka
served as a game forest for generations of Mysore
Maharajas. Apart from the regular fauna, the Nagarhole
National Park in Karnataka also boasts of the
presence of some 250 species of birds. Some of
the regular animals of the Nagarhole National
Park in Karnataka include tigers, leopards, elephants,
dhole, gaur, chital, muntjac, mouse deer, four-horned
antelope, wild boar, sloth bear, hyena, mongoose,
civet and otters in the Wildlife Sanctuaries in India.
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