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Male Mahadeshwara Hills Sanctuary flags half of poaching cases
Recent Forest Department data on registered poaching and illegal arms cases in the last 16 years comprises nearly half of such cases in Male Mahadeshwara Hills Wildlife Sanctuary. The news context comprises this official dataset highlighting the sanctuary’s share in these enforcement cases.
Male Mahadeshwara Hills Wildlife Sanctuary:
| Dimension | Key Details |
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| Location | The sanctuary comprises the intersection of the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats, and falls in Chamarajanagara District, Karnataka. |
| Notification status | The sanctuary has been declared a wildlife sanctuary in 2013. |
| Contiguity | The sanctuary comprises contiguity to Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple (BRT) Tiger Reserve, Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve, and the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary. |
| Religious site | The sanctuary comprises the Male Mahadeshwara Temple, dedicated to Lord Shiva, known here as Mahadeshwara. |
| River boundaries | The sanctuary comprises a northeastern boundary by the Kaveri River and a southern boundary by the Palar River. |
| Vegetation | The sanctuary comprises dry deciduous vegetation, degrading to scrub forest in fringe areas, interspersed with moist deciduous, semi-evergreen, evergreen, and shola forests at varying altitudes. |
| Flora | The sanctuary comprises Anogeissus latifolia, Boswellia serrata, Hardwikia binata, and Chloroxylon swietenia. |
| Fauna | The sanctuary comprises elephants, Indian bison, tigers, wild dogs, leopards, foxes, sambars, spotted deer, and many species of birds. |