Location: Nepal, Asia
Overview: climate and
geography, It has a unique topography ranging from
lowlands with sub-tropical jungles to arctic conditions
in the Himalayan highlands. Within a mere 150 kilometers
the land rises from near sea level in the south to over
8000 meters in the North. This, together with the
monsoon rainfall along the south facing slopes, has
resulted in compacting virtually all climate zones found
on planet Earth. As a result, Nepal has been endowed
with a great diversity of life-zones providing a home
for a large variety of plants, birds and animals.
The Terai lowlands are defined by a belt of well-watered
floodplains stretching from the Indian border northward
to the first slopes of the Bhabhar and the Siwalik
Range. This is the richest habitat in the land with tall
grasslands interspersed with riverine and hardwood sal
forest . Here one can see wildlife such as the swamp
deer, musk deer, black buck, blue bull, the royal Bengal
tiger, gharial and marsh mugger crocodile and the last
of a breed of Asiatic wild buffalo. This area is also
rich in birdlife with a variety of babbles and orioles,
koels and drongos, peacocks and floricans, and a
multitude of wintering wildfowl. There are five
protected areas in Nepal - Koshi Tappu and Parsa in the
east, Sukla Phanta and Dhorpatan for hunting in the west
and Shivapuri in the. mid-mountain region. The Churia,
also known as the. siwalik, is the southern most range
of the Himalaya. No where do they rise above 1,220
meters, This range is famous for fossil deposits of
Pleistocene mammals, among them 10 species of elephants,
6 rhinoceros, hippopotamus, saber-toothed cats, various
antelopes and primates such as the orang-utan, long
extinct in the subcontinent, Situated north of the
Churia are broad, low valleys of the inner Terai know as
the Doons. These valleys are not unlike the outer plains
with tall elephant grass, swamps and ox-bow lakes where
the last of the one-horned rhinoceros survive. Royal
Chitwan National Park in the Inner Terai of central
Nepal is the first and best protected area in the
kingdom. Once one of the most famous big game hunting
areas in Asia. Chitwan now offers protection to a large
array of mammals such as the. one-horned rhinoceros,
tiger, leopard, sloth bear and the gaur (wild bison) as
well as more than 400 species of birds....More On Requst
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