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Mar 9, 2020 · The Eastern Ghats is considered to be a part of India’s natural heritage. The broken hill-ranges of the Eastern Ghats spread across Odisha, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu, are home to unique ecosystems. The Eastern Ghats face a serious threat from climate change. The area has shrunk by 16% over the past century, and just ...
The Eastern Ghats Wildlife Society (EGWS) is a non-profit organization that promotes community-based wildlife conservation in the Eastern Ghats region of South India through education, conservation-oriented research, public participation, institutional capacity building and sustainable development.
Apr 29, 2024 · Eastern Coastal Plains, a large Indian territory, lies between the Eastern Ghats and the Bay of Bengal. It runs from Tamil Nadu in the south to West Bengal in the north, passing via Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. Eastern Coastal Plains are broader and flatter than the Western Coastal Plains. These are vast plains with an average width of 120 ...
The Eastern Ghats are a discontinuous range of mountains that run in a north-south alignment more or less east of the Deccan plateau and pass through Odisha state in the north and Telangana-Andhra Pradesh to Tamil Nadu state in the south, traversing some parts of Karnataka state, namely, Bellary, Kolar and Chamarajnagar districts.
The Western Ghats is an “Evolutionary Ecotone” illustrating “Out of Africa” and “Out of Asia” hypotheses on species dispersal and vicariance. Criterion (x): The Western Ghats contain exceptional levels of plant and animal diversity and endemicity for a continental area. In particular, the level of endemicity for some of the 4-5,000 ...
Aug 27, 2022 · The Eastern Ghats holds a rich, complicated and interesting geological history may be because they evolved through long processes of magmatism, metamorphism and deformation. This discontinuous mountain range passes through Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu sharing 25%, 40%, 5%, 5% and 25% of the Ghats respectively with a highest peak of 1822 m called Kattahi Betta in BR hills, Karnataka.
Eastern Ghats is the main source for many small and medium rivers. Some of the important rivers flowing through Eastern Ghats include Krishna, Godavari, Kaveri, Mahanadi and Brahmani. Other Rivers which originate in Eastern Ghats include Baitarani River, Rushikulya River, Gostani River, Pennai River, Champavathi River, Kundu River and many more
