Category World Famous National Parks

Filled with vast stretches of equatorial forest and grasslands, Intanki is one of the finest wildlife protected areas of Nagaland. It became a national park in 1993.

The thick rain forests in the Park offer a perfect habitat for all types of mammals, birds, reptiles and insects. Intanki is full of animals like Hoolock gibbon, golden langur, palm civets, tiger, black stork, sloth bear, wild dogs, flying squirrel, monitor lizard, and python.

It also has a large bird population; the birdlife here ranges from pheasants to hornbills and white-breasted kingfishers.

Intanki is also known as Ntangki National Park. The name Ntangki is derived from the Zeme dialect of the Zeliangrong tribe.

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In spite of their name, clouded leopards are not actually leopards. They are small version of the big car family, noted for their commendable ability to climb trees and jump to amazing heights. The dark blotchy patches with a unique pattern on its skin distinguish the clouded leopard from others in the cat family. Clouded Leopard National Park in Tripura is famous for its captive clouded leopard enclosures. Clouded leopards are also found in other national parks in the north-east.

Clouded Leopard National Park is a woodland with an artificial lake. It is a part of Sipahijola Wildlife Sanctuary. The spectacled langur, an endemic species of Tripura is abundant here. Other mammals like leopard, jungle fowl, barking deer and wild pigs are also found in the Park.

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Located near the Nilgiri Hills, Mudumalai National Park protects a range of plant and animal life including the Indian elephant, Bengal tiger, gaur, Indian leopard, and the critically endangered Indian white-rumped vulture and long-billed vulture.

Mudumalai is divided into five ranges- Masinagudi, Thepakadu, Mudumalai, Kargudi and Nellakota. The Park borders Bandipur National Park in Karnataka. Just like Bandipur, Mudumalai too lies between the Mysore-Ooty road, flooded with tourist traffic. There is a night travel ban here too in order to safeguard the elephant corridor.

The extensive growth of invasive species, such as lantana poses a threat to the fauna of Mudumalai; this hinders the natural regeneration process of the forests.

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The Redwood National and State Parks is a group of several state parks and one national park located in California. As the name suggest, it was set up to protect the remaining redwood forests.

The redwood trees are one among the tallest, oldest, and one of the most massive tree species on Earth. Along with the redwood forests, the parks preserve other indigenous flora, fauna, grassland prairie, cultural resources, portions of rivers and other streams, and 60 kilometres of pristine coastline.

The Redwood National and State Parks is made of the Redwood National Park and California’s Del Norte Coast, Jedediah Smith, and Prairie Creek Redwoods State Parks. At the time when these parks were set up, almost 90 per cent of the native redwood trees were logged off. The revival works are progressing successfully.

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The Grand Canyon is one of the most visited places in Arizona. It is a gorge of the Colorado river. This rocky structure is at least 17 million years old. The river had eroded the canyon since then to form what we see today.

The Grand Canyon is 446 km long, up to 29 km wide and is around 2 km deep in some places. The narrowest point us more than six kilometres wide. Nearly 40 major sedimentary rock layers are exposed in the Grand Canyon. These layers contain millions of years of geological history. Some of these layers are two billion years old.

The Grand Canyon was designated a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO in 1979.

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Braulio Carillo National Park in Costa Rica exists within a volcanic conservation area. The Park was built in order to limit the developments in the area after the construction of the Limon Highway, a road of industrial importance.

The Park hosts the Barva Volcano, several other dormant volcanoes, various rivers and crater lakes. More than 90 per cent of the Park is covered with forests. The vegetation in the Park varies according to the altitude; there are cloud forests in high altitudes and tropical rainforests in lowlands.

Braulio Carillo has one of the highest levels of biodiversity in Costa Rica. More than 600 species of trees, 530 species of birds and 135 species of mammals thrive here.

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