5. Flora is all the plant life present in a
particular region or time, generally the
naturally occurring (indigenous) native
plants. The corresponding term for animal
life is fauna. ... Sometimes bacteria and fungi
are also referred to as flora, as in the terms
gut flora or skin flora.
7. The 'silver fern' Cyathea dealbata – ponga in te reo
Māori – is a species of tree fern only found in New
Zealand. Although they are called 'silver ferns', the
undersides of the fronds are usually white; only in
some northern populations are they actually 'silver'.
Terminalia Arjuna is common throughout India
especially in the sub Himalayan tracts and Eastern
India. They are widely grown in Bandhavgarh
National Park, Pench Tiger Reserve and Kanha
National Park in India. It is mainly grown on the
banks of the rivers and streams.
8. The Indian government has established 18
biosphere reserves to protect larger areas
of natural habitat than a typical national
park or animal sanctuary, and that often
include one or more national parks or
preserves, along with buffer zones that are
open to some economic uses
Large areas of protected land for conservation of wild
Life,plant and animal resources and
Traditional life of the tribals living in the area.
10. The Nanda Devi National Park or Nanda Devi
Biosphere Reserve, established in 1982 is
a national park situated around the peak
of Nanda Devi (7816 m) in the state
of Uttarakhand in northern India. The entire
park lies at an elevation of more than 3,500 m
(11,500 ft) above mean sea level.
The National Park was inscribed a World
Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1988.[1] It was
later expanded and renamed as Nanda Devi
and Valley of Flowers National Parks in 2005.
Within the National Park lies the Nanda Devi
Sanctuary, a glacial basin surrounded by a ring
of peaks between 6,000 metres (19,700 ft) and
7,500 m (24,600 ft) high, and drained by the
Rishi Ganga through the Rishi Ganga Gorge, a
steep almost impassable defile.
The National Park is embedded in the
2,236.74 km2 (863.61 sq mi) sized Nanda Devi
Biosphere Reserve, which, in turn, is
encompassed in the
5,148.57 km2 (1,987.87 sq mi)[2][3] buffer zone
around the Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National
11. Sunderban is the larges mangal diversity of the planet
(81 plant and 1586 animal species.) This biosphere
reserve is located in the vast Delta of the Ganges, south
of Calcutta and bordering Bangladesh in the east. ... The
core area (Sunderban National Park) has been
designated as a World Heritage site.
12. The Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve is a non-
use conservation area and biosphere reserve
in the Satpura Range of Madhya Pradesh
state in central India. The conservation area
was created in 1999 by the Indian
government. It also contains animals from the
himalayan peaks and from the lower western
ghats.It is famous for its natural landforms on the northern
edge of Satpura hills. It is an area of geographical
isolation. Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve area, which
constitutes the Central part of India, is one of the highly
biodiversity rich areas with high floristic diversity and
unique plant life forms.
