Nilgiri mountains - Wikipedia Commons.
The total area of the Bio-sphere reserve is 5520 Sq. K.m out of which major portion of 2537.6 Sq. Kms. is in Tamil Nadu with 1527 Sq. Km. in Karnataka and 1455.4 Sq. Kms. in Kerala.
Kerala, Karnataka, and Tamilnadu will jointly celebrate the 25th year of the declaration of India’s first and foremost biosphere reserve with rich in flora and fauna, Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve, this year.
It was in September 1986, as a follow up of UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere (MAB) programme, the Indian National MAB committee designated Nilagiris Biosphere Reserve, as the Biosphere Reserve of the country with the objectives such as the conservation of Biodiversity and their ecological foundations, bring representative ecosystems under conservation and sustainable use on long term basis, integrate scientific research with traditional knowledge of conservation and facilitate education and training as a part of over all management of biosphere reserve etc.
Good Initiative, we need more and more such natural reserves!
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