News: The Kalaburagi district administration, in collaboration with the Forest Department, is persuading residents living inside Chincholi Wildlife Sanctuary to relocate from the ecologically fragile area.
About Chincholi Wildlife Sanctuary
- It is in the Chincholi taluk of Kalaburagi district of Karnataka.
- The sanctuary was established in 2011, and it holds the distinction of being the first dry-land wildlife sanctuary in South India.
- The sanctuary is famous for its floral and faunal diversity.
- Flora: It is famous for several medicinal herbs and rare trees like red sanders and sandalwood. The dry deciduous and moist deciduous forest occupy the core regions with acacia and teak plantations on the fringes.
- Fauna: The sanctuary is also home to diverse fauna like blackbuck, fruit bat, Indian wolf, common fox, four-horned antelope, black drongo, blossom-headed parakeet.
- Chandrampalli dam, along with four smaller dams, provides water to this wildlife sanctuary.
- It houses Lambani Tandas which is a protected tribal community living in the forests in harmony with nature.
