National parks are extensive forests established to protect nature and biodiversity. They prohibit human activities and development to allow organisms to live freely. Some of India's national parks mentioned are Eravikulam National Park in Kerala, which protects mountain rainforests and is a potential UNESCO site, Jim Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand established in 1936 as India's first national park to protect tigers, and Bandipur National Park in Karnataka known for its wildlife and dry deciduous forests as part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.

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2. NATIONAL PARKS
Many farsighted activities have
been planned to repair the damages caused to the
environment by human invasions. National parks are
one among them. These parks are extensive forests
which maintain the original beauty an complexity of
nature. Here human intentions like farming, plantation
etc. strictly prohibited. Private holdings are also not
permitted in the national parks, which give opportunities
for all organism to live as part of nature, are the enriched
storehouses of biological health. Eravikulam and Silent
valley are the National Parks in Kerala

3. :- is located in
the Nilgiri Hills, Palakkad District in Kerala, South India. The
park is one of the last undisturbed tracts of South Western
Ghats mountain rain forests and tropical moist evergreen
forest in India. Plans for a hydroelectric project that
threatened the parks high diversity of wildlife stimulated
an environmentalist Social Movement in the 1970s called Save
Silent Valley which resulted in cancellation of the project and
creation of the park in 1980. The visitors' Centre for the park
is at Sairandhri

4. Jim Corbett National Park: is the oldest national park in
India and was established in 1936 as Hailey National Park to protect
the endangered Bengal tiger. It is located in Nainital
district of Uttarakhand and was named after Jim Corbett. The park
was the first to come under the Project Tiger initiative. The park
has sub-Himalayan belt geographical and ecological characteristics.
As an ecotourism destination it contains 488 different species of
plants and a diverse variety of fauna. Corbett National Park
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comprises 520.8 km
. area of hills, riverine belts, marshy
depressions, grass lands and large lake. Dense moist deciduous
forest mainly consists of sal, haldu, pipal, rohini and mango trees,
and these trees cover almost 73 per cent of the park. The 10 per
cent of the area consists of grasslands. It houses around 110 tree
species, 50 species of mammals, 580 bird species and 25 reptile
species.

5. Bandipur National Park :- established in 1974 as a tiger reserve
under Project Tiger, is a national park located in the south Indian state
of Karnataka. It was once a private hunting reserve for the Maharaja of the
Kingdom of Mysore. Bandipur is known for its wildlife and has many types
of biomes, but dry deciduous forest is dominant. The park spans an area of
874 square kilometers, protecting several species of India's endangered
wildlife. Together with the adjoining , Mudumalai National Park and Wayanad
Wildlife Sanctuary, it is part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve totaling
making it the largest protected area in southern India. Bandipur is located
in Gundlupet taluq of Chamarajanagar district. It is about 80 kilometers
from the city of Mysore on the route to a major tourist destination
of Ooty. As a result, Bandipur sees a lot of tourist traffic and there are a lot
of wildlife fatalities caused by speeding vehicles that are reported each
year. There is a ban on traffic from the hours of dusk to dawn to help bring
down deaths of wildlife.

6. Bannerghatta National Park:
Near Bangalore, Karnataka, southern India,
was founded in 1971 and declared as a national park
in 1974. In 2002 a portion of the park, became a
biological reserve, the Bannerghatta Biological Park.
It is a popular tourist destination with a zoo, a pet
corner, an animal rescue center, a butterfly enclosure,
an aquarium, a snake house and a safari park. There
are ancient temples in the park for worship and it is a
destination for trekking. The Zoo Authority of
Karnataka, the University of Agricultural Sciences,
Bangalore, and the Ashoka Trust for Resea rch in
Ecology and Environment are collaborating
agencies. Within the national park area are six rural
villages enclosed within three large enclosures for
sheep and cattle farming.

7. Eravikulam National Park : Located along the Western
Ghats in the Idukki district of Kerala in India, between
10º05'N – 10º20'N latitude and 77º0'E – 77º10'E longitude.
It is the first and largest national park in kerala. Eravikulam
National Park is administered by the Kerala Department of
Forests and Wildlife, Munnar Wildlife Division, together
with the nearby Mathikettan Shola National Park, Anamudi
Shola National Park , Pambadum Shola National
Park, Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary and the Kurinjimala
Sanctuary. The Western Ghats , Anamalai Sub-Cluster,
including all of Eravikulam National Park, is under
consideration by the UNESCO World Heritage
Committee for selection as a World Heritage Site.

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