Kawal Tiger Reserve

• 24 Feb 2020

• Kawal Tiger Reserve is located at Adilabad district in Telangana state of India.
• The Government of India declared Kawal wildlife sanctuary as Tiger Reserve in 2012.
  
  • The Kawal wildlife sanctuary was established in 1965 and later declared as the Protected Area (PA) in 1999 under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.
  • Flora: Dry Deciduous Teak Forests mixed with Bamboo.
  • Fauna: Mammal species that have been sighted include tiger, leopard, gaur, cheetal, sambar, nilgai, barking deer, chowsingha, sloth bear.
  • The River Kadam (a tributary of Godavari) flows through this area.
• The area is increasingly getting threatened by growing human encroachments, rampant poaching, illegal wood felling and habitat loss.

Source: TH