Chinnar wildlife sanctury

The flora and funna of chinnar sanctury

The chinnar is declared as a sanctury in 1984. It has around 90.442km2 area. The heights of the forest is between 448 m to 2378 m.

The chinnar is a rainshadow region. And it is the only rainshadow forest in kerala. The flora of chinnar is classified in to 6 types. They are
         1.Shola forest
         2.Grass lands
         3.Dry deciduous forest
         4.Thorny scrib jungle
         5.Rhiparium gallery forest
         6.Most deciduous forest
  The only on Thorny scrib forest in kerala is in chinnar. The endangered and endemic tree found only in chinnar is Albizia lathani.
The flagship speices of chinnar wildlife sanctury are Grizeld Gaint Squrrel,Tafted gray langor and star tortoise. Also many other wild species are found in chinnar sanctury.

In chinnar sanctury the pambar and the chinnar joins and flow together as kuttar.There is a very good Eco Tourism. It has two tree houses in the forest and six log houses. They also have a hut in vashyapara. The chinnar is famous for the dolmens. These dolmens are the secondary burial place of the people lived in the mesolithic age. These dolmens are also have some petroglace and petrography wall pictures. Also a beautiful waterfal is found in the chinnar. It is the Tuvana waterfall.