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Tuesday 28 August 2012

Kasanka National Park in Zambia

             Kasanka National Park in Zambia
 Kasanka National Park located in Northern Zambia just west of the Luangwa Valley.It is first national parks of Zambia.It is also 1st private national park.This park privately funded Kasanka Trust Ltd has taken on all administration responsibilities, in affiliation with the Zambian Wildlife Authority, and has been in operation back 1986.Kasanka isalso a beautiful wilderness of woodland, plains, lakes, rivers and swamps in the North of Zambia.
Kasanka National Park

The park has become a focus of bounded bread-and-butter development through employment, tourism acquirement sharing, and abstruse abutment from the Trust. Administration activities conducted by Kasanka cover anti-poaching, blaze management, infrastructure, tourism development and advance of applied and accurate research. Community abutment programmes run by the Trust accept helped surrounding communities to accomplish absolute allowances from bigger ability administration as able-bodied as acceptable with education, health, HIV/AIDS, and alimentation support.

 There have many rivers and marshes are home to a wide range of (reed)frogs and other amphibians. Large crocodiles dwell in the rivers and huge specimens can be seen along the Kasanka and Luwombwa Rivers. Large Nile monitors occur as well, as do Speke’s hinged tortoise. Common snake species include African rock python, forest cobra, lined olympic snake, olive marsh snake and herald snake.

marsh snake

 marsh snake

 Kasanka National Park world heritage site listed in 2nd july 2012  meeting in the Russian city
.really it is attractive place,this attraction for visitors it forms a valuable protected area for many endangered species.

Western Ghats mountain in india




                  Western Ghats mountain in india

The Western Ghats mountain the range that runs along the western coast of India, from the Vindhya-Satpura ranges in the north to the southern tip.The mountains cover an area of about 160,000 sq km (61,776 sq miles) stretching from the country's southern tip to Gujarat in the north The ecosystems of the Western Ghats are amid mainly in the afterward regions: the close wet beloved forests in Amboli and Radhanagari; the Montane beloved forests in Mahabaleshwar and Bhimashanker; clammy deciduous forests in Mulsi and the abrade backwoods in Mundunthurai.

Western Ghats mountain in india
The forests includenon-equatorial close beloved forests and are home to at atomic 325 globally-threatened flora, fauna, bird, amphibian, bastard and fish species Almost one-third of all the beginning plant species in India are begin in this region. Of the 450-odd plants begin in this region, 40% are ancient (these are breed that accept acclimatized to this accurate breadth and the altitude absolute in it.) There is an according assortment of beastly and bird life. There is alone one biodiversity assets in the Western Ghats, the Nilgiri biodiversity reserve,which helps in attention ancient and endangered species. A few of the aboriginal and alien timberline and bulb breed in the Western Ghats are the teak, jamun, cashew, hog plum, coral tree, jasmine, and crossandra.

coral tree




















 At a meeting in the Russian city in 2 july 2012 on Sunday , Unesco delegates decided to give World Heritage Site listed Western Ghats.it 5th natural world heritage site in india.really western gates is beautiful mountain in the world.