Valparai is located in the western ghats of Tamil Nadu. It is a calm hill station in Valparai, far from the busy cities. As a ...

Most species are seen only close to the mountain range. ... New plants from Western Ghats Most species are seen only close to the mountain range Updated - April 28, 2018 06:27 pm IST .

In Kerala’s Western Ghats, 20 local women are restoring a rainforest from the roots up. At Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary, they ...

When the rains roll in, the Western Ghats come alive with waterfalls, emerald valleys, and surreal fog-covered peaks. From hidden hill stations to offbeat villages, explore the top 7 monsoon-ready ...

In particular, the level of endemicity for some of the 4-5,000 plant species recorded in the Ghats is very high: of the nearly 650 tree species found in the Western Ghats, 352 (54%) are endemic.

2 new plant species discovered in Western Ghats. June 13, 2025 e-Paper. ... Eriocaulon manoharanii was found growing in the wet rocky mountain grasslands of Mamalakandam-Munippara area in the ...

Stretching 1,600 kilometers (990 miles) along India’s western coast from the state of Tamil Nadu at the subcontinent’s southern tip north to Maharashtra, the Western Ghats mountain range is ...

The mountain range is home to over 5,000 species of flowering plants, 139 mammal species, 508 bird species and 179 amphibian species which are not found elsewhere in the world.

Forests of native trees and plants once blanketed the Western Ghats mountains in southern India, but nearly 200 years ago, British colonists installed rows upon rows of tea plantations there ...

The new species is distributed from Salher in Nashik District, which is located in the north and south of Kolhapur district, in the northern Western Ghats and grows mostly on open mountain slopes ...