Protected Areas
As of 1997, 13 protected areas had been designated, covering an area of over 3,200 km².
- Pushpagiri, Karnataka (60 km²)
- Talakaveri, Karnataka 250 km²)
- Brahmagiri, Karnataka (190 km²)
- Aralam Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala (50 km²)
- Karimpuzha National Park, Kerala (230 km²)
- Silent Valley National Park, Kerala (110 km²)
- Eravikulam National Park, Kerala (97 km²)
- Periyar National Park, Kerala (540 km²)
- Parambikulam, Kerala (260 km²)
- Idukki National Park, Kerala (80 km²)
- Peppara Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala(40 km²)
- Shenduruny Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala (300 km²)
- Meghamalai, Tamil Nadu (120 km²)
- Anamalai, Tamil Nadu (600 km²)
- Mukurthi National Park, Tamil Nadu (60 km²)
- Kalakad Mundanthurai Tamil Nadu(290 km²)
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Famous quotes containing the words protected and/or areas:
“If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected—those, precisely, who need the laws’s protection most!—and listens to their testimony.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)
“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)