The overall forest cover, spread over 43.4 per cent of Eastern Ghats in 1920, reduced to 27.5 per cent by 2015.

Araku Valley is situated in the Eastern Ghats of India, in Andhra Pradesh state, and provides a scenic getaway from the ...

More than 3,000 different species of plants are found in the Eastern Ghats that comprises varying habitats like wetlands, hill and mangrove forests, grasslands and coastal vegetation.

Eastern Ghats face loss of forest cover, endemic plants Forest cover shrunk from 43.4% to 27.5% in 95 years Updated - October 06, 2018 06:48 pm IST . Aswathi Pacha.

These events certainly inflicted changes in the ranges and habitats of organisms, disrupting their earlier evolutionary ...

New flowering plant species discovered in Eastern Ghats of Andhra, Telangana This discovery adds to the diversity of India’s flora, as Dicliptera is known for its tropical and subtropical ...

The erosion of Eastern Ghats is going to cause massive damage to the environment,” said NV Sarath Chandra, a research scholar. Covered with hills, slopes, water falls, streams, vast green cover ...

BENGALURU: Reptile species in the Western and Eastern Ghats and South India in general are under threat of extinction, a report says. The study, Status and distribution of reptiless in the Western ...

Endemic to India’s Eastern Ghats, Jeypore ground gecko (Cyrtodactylus jeyporensis), an enigmatic nocturnal lizard, is on the extinction path due to deforestation, mining, rapid urbanization and ...

Bhubaneswar, April 16: The two-day National Conference on Conservation of Eastern Ghats, organised in association with the Council of Green Revolution, began today at Utkal University here. The ...

Besides conserving the forests, the locals are using various medicinal plants to treat common ailments. Divisional forest officer (DFO) of Nayagarh, Laxmi Narayan Behera said, “From Charichhak Square ...