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MALAI MAHADESHWARA WILDLIFE SANCTUARY
The Forest Department has launched a pilot project to encourage community farming and help augment farm income of local villagers on the outskirts of malai mahadeshwara wildlife sanctuary.
Malai Mahadeshwara Wildlife Sanctuary is located in the Chamarajanagar district of Karnataka.
It is spread over 906.18 sq km – is contiguous to BRT Tiger Reserve, Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve and the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary.
The area was declared as Wildlife Sanctuary in 2013.
It consists mainly of dry deciduous type degrading to scrub forest in the fringe areas, and are interspersed with patches of moist deciduous, semi-evergreen, evergreen and shola forests occurring at varying altitudes.
State Board for Wildlife had given its concurrence to declare Malai Mahadeshwara Wildlife Sanctuary as a tiger reserve in January 2019.
In the justification to declare the sanctuary a tiger reserve, the authorities have stated that this is a unique geographical zone that acts as a bridge between the Western and Eastern Ghats.