12/10/2017
Mother of nature! Yeah ,it's breathtaking Kudremukh national park, Geography of Kudremukh National Park. Dominant flora and fauna of Kudremukh National Park. How to Reach Kudremukh National Park. Accommodation at Kudremukh National Park.
The park is surrounded by Coffee and Tea plantations on the northern and eastern boundaries. The town of Kudremukh is primarily an iron ore mining town where the government run Public Sector Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd. (KIOCL) operated till the last decade. Kudremukh region was declared as a reserved forest in the year of 1916, to stop the extensive cut and burn agricultural practices from entering into the Ghats………….
Total area of the park is about 600.32 Km2. It was declared as a National Park in the year of 1987. There are highly dense forests rich in varieties of wild life like as tiger, leopard, wild dog, Malabar giant squirrel, common langur, sloth bear, gaur, sambar, spotted deer, barking deer and the sloth bear. The other attraction of the place are, the temple of goddess bhagawathi, and a varaha image 1.8m. The river bhadra and the tunga freely flow through the parklands.
National park is an area which is strictly reserved for the betterment of the wildlife & biodiversity, and where activities like developmental, forestry, poaching, hunting and grazing on cultivation are not permitted. Their boundaries are well marked and circumscribed.